Smith Henderson

Smith Henderson
OccupationNovelist
Alma materUniversity of Montana (BA)
Michener Center for Writers (MFA)
Notable works
Notable awards
  • PEN Emerging Writers Award (2011)
  • Philip Roth Residency in Creative Writing at Bucknell University (2011)
Website
www.smith-henderson.com

Smith Henderson is an American fiction writer, and is the author of the novels Fourth of July Creek and (with Jon Marc Smith) Make Them Cry, as well as short stories published in Best American Short Stories, Tin House, American Short Fiction, One Story, and Witness.

His debut novel Fourth of July Creek was a bestseller and was named a Notable Book by the New York Times and the third best novel of the year according to Entertainment Weekly.