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Official website. 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.
Clint Smith is the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named one of the New York Times10 Best Books of 2021. He is also the author of the New York Timesbestselling poetry collection Above ...
Clint Smith is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism, the Stowe Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 ...
Clint Smith is the author of the poetry collection Counting Descent (2016) and a meta-historical travelogue novel How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (2021). Counting Descent won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the…
Clint Smith, one of our most thoughtful writers and thinkers, skillfully documents how echoes of enslavement remain everywhere... How the Word Is Passed is a vital, desperately-needed contribution to that reckoning.”―
Jun 2, 2021 · In his first major work of nonfiction, How the Word is Passed, poet, scholar and Atlantic Magazine staff writer Clint Smith seeks out this troubling history to understand the stories America...
Aug 27, 2021 · Aug 27, 2021, 11:00 AM PDT. Hulton Archive/Getty Images. I’d argue truth and reconciliation are the most essential issues in American life.
