Clint Smith

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 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Stowe Prize, and selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 best books of 2021. He is also the author of two books of poetry, Counting Descent and the New York Times bestselling collection Above Ground. He is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Clint taught high school English in Prince George’s County, Maryland, where he was named the Christine D. Sarbanes Teacher of the Year by the Maryland Humanities Council. He is the host of the YouTube series Crash Course Black American History. He received his B.A. from Davidson College and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Born and raised in New Orleans, he currently lives in Maryland with his wife and their two children.