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Kyle Smith

Biography

Kyle Smith

Kyle Smith grew up
in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts and attended Yale University,
where he majored in English and graduated summa cum laude and Phi
Beta Kappa. Shortly after graduation, he was surprised to find
himself the only member of his Yale class leading a United States
Army platoon into combat in the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War. He began
his journalism career writing dispatches from the war for the
now-defunct Dallas Times-Herald and later moved to New York
City to be a news clerk and reporter for the New York City bureau
of the Associated Press. Then he returned to combat, serving
three honorable years at the New York Post. These
experiences in the New York City newspaper industry provided him
with the inspiration and the material to write a romantic comedy
screenplay, which inspired him to revisit the dating scene in his
debut novel LOVE MONKEY. From 1996 to 2005 he worked for
People as a critic and editor of the book and music reviews,
and currently is a film critic for the New York Post. His
next novel, A CHRISTMAS CAROLINE, will be published on October 31,
2006 by William Morrow.


Smith lives in New York City, where his interests include music
(mainly listening, though he has made "disorganized efforts" to
play), reading, and running.



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