Clint Smith
Writer, poet and scholar
Clint Smith is an American writer and poet and a staff writer at The Atlantic. He wrote How the Word Is Passed, a number one New York Times bestseller.
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American Born 1988 in New Orleans, United States
About Clint Smith
Clint Smith (Clinton Smith III) is an American writer, poet and scholar. He is a staff writer at The Atlantic, and he has contributed to the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Paris Review and Poetry. His nonfiction book How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America reached number one on the New York Times bestseller list. It won the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and the New York Times named it one of the ten best books of 2021. Smith has also published two poetry collections: Counting Descent (2016) and Above Ground (2023). Counting Descent received a 2017 poetry book award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. He earned an English degree at Davidson College and a doctorate in education from Harvard University.