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Gregory Blake Smith

Biography

Gregory Blake Smith

Gregory Blake Smith is the award-winning author of four novels, including THE MAZE AT WINDERMERE and THE DIVINE COMEDY OF JOHN VENNER, a New York Times Notable Book. His short story collection, THE LAW OF MIRACLES, won the Juniper Prize and the Minnesota Book Award. He has received a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University and the George Bennett Fellowship at Phillips Exeter Academy, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bush Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Smith is currently the Lloyd P. Johnson-Norwest Professor of English and the Liberal Arts at Carleton College.

Gregory Blake Smith

Books by Gregory Blake Smith

by Gregory Blake Smith - Fiction, Historical Fiction

A reckless wager between a tennis pro with a fading career and a drunken party guest --- the stakes are an antique motorcycle and an heiress’s diamond necklace --- launches a narrative odyssey that braids together three centuries of aspiration and adversity. A witty and urbane bachelor of the Gilded Age embarks on a high-risk scheme to marry into a fortune; a young writer soon to make his mark turns himself to his craft with harrowing social consequences; an aristocratic British officer during the American Revolution carries on a courtship that leads to murder; and, in Newport’s earliest days, a tragically orphaned Quaker girl imagines a way forward for herself and the slave girl she has inherited.