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Clinton "Clint" Smith III (born August 25, 1988) is an American writer, poet and scholar. He is the author of the number one New York Times Best Seller, How the Word Is Passed, which won the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named one of the top ten books of 2021 by the New York Times. He is also the author of two poetry collections, Counting Descent, which was published in 2016 and Above Ground, which was published in March 2023. Early life and education Of African American heritage, Smith grew up Catholic in New Orleans, where he went to Benjamin Franklin High School for his first three years of high school and later attended the Awty International School in Houston, Texas for his senior year because he and his family fled New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina. He attended Davidson College, graduating in 2010 with a B.A. in English and subsequently obtained a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Career Smith taught high school English in Prince George's County, Maryland where he was named the Christine D. Sarbanes Teacher of the Year by the Maryland Humanities Council. He then pursued doctoral work at the Harvard Graduate School of Education with a concentration in Culture, Institutions, and Society, earning his PhD in 2020 with his dissertation focusing how children sentenced to life without parole experience educational programming while they are incarcerated.He was part of the winning team at the 2014 National Poetry Slam and was a 2017 recipient of the Jerome J. Shestack Prize from The American Poetry Review. Smith published his first book of poetry, Counting Descent, in 2016. It won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Awards. He was on the 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 list and Ebony's 2017 Power 100 list.Smith has also been a contributor to The New Yorker magazine. His work is included in the anthology The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race (2016), edited by Jesmyn Ward. Smith's second book, How the Word Is Passed, was published by Little, Brown on June 1, 2021. It was selected for the New York Times Book Review's "10 Best Books of 2021" list, and he won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for nonfiction for it. Smith is currently working to present the untold stories of World War II to be published by Random House in a nonfiction book, Just Beneath the Soil.He currently serves as a staff writer at The Atlantic, where his piece, "Monuments to the Unthinkable" was featured as the cover story in December 2022. The article was also named a finalist for the 2023 National Magazine Awards. He hosted Crash Course's Black American History series, which ran from 2021 until late in 2022.A fan of the Arsenal F.C. football (soccer) club and a former college soccer player, Smith has written several essays on the sport. Awards and honors 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nonfiction Winner 2022 Stowe Prize 2022 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction 2021 New York Times "Best Books of 2021 List" 2021 Time Magazine "10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021" 2021 The Root 100 2021 GQ "50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century" 2021 Andrew W Mellon Foundation Fellow-in-Residence 2020 Emerson Fellow at New America 2018 Forbes' "30 Under 30" 2018 Art for Justice Grantee 2017 NAACP Image Award Finalist 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book 2017 Ebony's Power 100 List 2014 National Poetry Slam Winner 2013 Christine D. Sarabanes Teacher of the YearPersonal life Smith resides in Maryland with his wife and two children. References External links Official website Lessons for How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith. Lessons and discussion questions by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, Cierra Kaler-Jones, Bill Bigelow, Jesse Hagopian, and Ana Rosado.. Discover the Clint Smith popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Clint Smith books.

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  • Game of My Life New York Rangers synopsis, comments

    Game of My Life New York Rangers

    John Halligan & John Kreiser

    Famous games and players have been the hallmark of the New York Rangers from their NHL debut in 1926 to the present day. From Frank Boucher and the original Blueshirts to Jaromir J...

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    The Devil Himself

    Peter Farris

    For Fans of Brian Panowich and Ron Rash. Southern Noir at its finest, The Devil Himself, sizzles with pageburning suspense and bewitching characters. Deep in the forest o...

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    New York Rangers by the Numbers

    Mark Rosenman, Howie Karpin & Albert Kenny

    What do Alexi Kovalev, Ted Irvine, and Mike Rogers all have in common? They all wore number 27 for the New York Rangers. Current team captain Ryan McDonagh joined their ranks when ...

  • A More Just Future synopsis, comments

    A More Just Future

    Dolly Chugh

    In the vein of Think Again and Do Better, a revolutionary, “welcome, and urgent invitation” (Angela Duckworth, #1 New York Times bestselling author) to explore the emotional relati...

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    Ultimate Handguns

    David Miller

    The Ultimate Collector's Guide to 500 Handguns in Full Color!Ultimate Handguns brings together five hundred classic examples, organized from AZ by country and gunmaker's name,...

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    Why is the United States at war over the history of slavery

    IKE SIMON

    A few years past, Clint Smith told the state a couple of recent comes which will take him to a series of historical sitesfrom Monticello to African country jail to the Door of No a...

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    The American Crisis

    Writers of The Atlantic

    Some of America’s best reporters and thinkers offer an urgent look at a country in chaos in this collection of timely, often prophetic articles from The Atlantic. The past four yea...

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    How the Word Is Passed Summary

    Instant-Summary

    How the Word Is Passed A Reckoning with The History of Slavery Across America A Comprehensive Summary Clint Smith reported an expedition with Leon A. Waters, an activist again...

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    Hard Winter

    Johnny D. Boggs

    Weather and creaking joints permitting, Jim Hawkins could be found every weekend sitting in that rocker right outside the Manix Store in Augusta, whittling and spitting. But Jim Ha...

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    Dear Black Girls

    A'ja Wilson

    THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Through honest stories and inspiring lessons from her life, A’ja Wilson reminds us to never doubt who we are or apologize for being true to ou...