Artist: Roland Jonsson Calligrapher: Annika Rücker Photo reproduction: Fredrika Berghult  

Works in English The Grass is Singing. – London : M. Joseph, 1950 ; New York : Crowell, 1950 This was the Old Chief’s Country. – London : M. Joseph, 1951 ; New York : Crowell, 1952 Martha Quest. – London : M. Joseph, 1952. – (Children of Violence; 1) Five : Short Novels. –…

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My fraternal twin, Roger, and I were born prematurely on June 23rd, 1925, in Halifax, England, an industrial town in the West Riding of Yorkshire, although we lived outside Halifax at 2, Woodhall Crescent on Wakefield Road, a row house rented from the town. My father, William Smithies, was at that time working for his…

Calligrapher: Susan Duvnäs Photo reproduction: Fredrika Berghult

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I was born in March 1938 in the small town of Carcassonne in the south of France. Later, and until I was two years old, I lived in Toulouse, another city in Southern France, where my parents were high school teachers, my father in physics and my mother in economics. But war loomed on the…

I was born in New York City, but grew up across the Hudson River in Alpine, New Jersey. With fewer than a thousand residents, Alpine was too small to have its own secondary schools, so I attended junior high and high school in the town of Tenafly, three miles down the road. At Tenafly High,…