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Sarah Smarsh (born 1980) is an American journalist and nonfiction writer. Background. Smarsh was born in rural Kansas and grew up on farms and in small towns.
- Writer
- Nonfiction
- 1980 (age 42–43), Kingman, Kansas, U.S.
A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth. Finalist for the National Book Award, Kirkus Prize and more. Recommended by President Barack Obama, Melinda Gates, Sarah Jessica Parker and literary critics around the world. Sarah Smarsh was born a fifth-generation Kansas farm girl, the child of a carpenter and a teen mom.
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Oct 18, 2018 · Heartland by Sarah Smarsh. Scribner, 304p $26. Smarsh, 38, a self-described fifth generation Kansas farm girl, was the first person from her farmhouse to finish high school. The fact that she ...
Sep 16, 2018 · A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth. By Sarah Smarsh. Purchase. Sarah Smarsh grew up in rural Kansas — the fifth generation to farm the same land, riding ...
Sarah Smarsh is a journalist who has reported for the New York Times, Harper’s, the Guardian, and many other publications.Her first book, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth, was an instant New York Times bestseller, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize, the winner of the Chicago Tribune Literary Prize, and a best-books ...
She is currently a Joan Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. A former professor of nonfiction writing, Smarsh is a frequent speaker on economic inequality and related media narratives. She lives in Kansas. Heartland is her first book. This bio was last updated on 08/30/2018.
Lithe and blond with wide gray-green eyes and high-heeled boots, Sarah Smarsh could easily be mistaken for someone that “never had to lift a finger,” as her grandmother would say. But looks are deceiving. The 39-year-old native of Kingman, Kansas, on the dusty plains west of Wichita, is tough as a square nail, forged by the grinding ...
