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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, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2021.
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 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’s gifts as both a poet and a scholar make How the Word Is Passed a richly provocative read about places where the story of American slavery lives on...[it] succeeds in making the essential distinction between history and nostalgia."—
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).
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...
Jun 1, 2021 · In “How the Word Is Passed,” Clint Smith visits nine places that memorialize or distort their link to the legacy of slavery, from Monticello, in Charlottesville, Va., to the African Burial...
Clint Smith is the author of the narrative nonfiction book, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, which was a #1 New York Times bestseller, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism, the Stowe Prize and selected by the New York Times as one of ...
Jun 1, 2021 · In Clint Smith’s upcoming book “How The Word Is Passed,” Clint Smith visits a handful of public history locations across the country—from the Monticello plantation to Houston, Texas—in order to reach a reckoning about history and how it’s told and passed (he also visits Senegal in the end).
Dec 27, 2022 · The author, Clint Smith, delves into the intricacies of America's relationship with its past, particularly its deep-rooted history of slavery. With meticulous research and poignant storytelling, Smith takes readers on a journey across various sites in the United States, exploring how they reckon with their ties to slavery.
