C.W. Smith is the author of nine novels -- Thin Men of Haddam (Grossman/Viking), Country Music (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), The Vestal Virgin Room (Atheneum), Buffalo Nickel (Poseidon/Simon & Schuster), Hunter’s Trap (Texas Christian University Press), Understanding Women (TCU Press), Gabriel’s Eye (Winedale Books), Purple Hearts (TCU Press), and Steplings (TCU Press). A collection of short stories, Letters From the Horse Latitudes was published in 1994. His short stories have appeared in Mademoiselle, Vision, Southwest Review, Sunstone Review, Carolina Quarterly, New Mexico Humanities Review, Quartet, Cimarron Review, American Literary Review, American Short Fiction, The Missouri Review and other magazines. A collection of essays, Tripped Up: a memoir in pieces, will appear in late 2014 from DeGolyer Library Books. He has also been a reporter and film critic for The Dallas Times Herald whose articles have also appeared in Esquire, TV Guide, Texas Monthly, Eastern Review, Atlanta, D, The Texas Humanist, and The Utne Reader, as well as other periodicals. His autobiographical book dealing with children after a divorce -- Uncle Dad -- was published by Putnam/Berkley in 1989.
He has twice received the Jesse H. Jones Novel Award from the Texas Institute of Letters; the Southwestern Library Association Award for Best Novel; the Dobie-Paisano Creative Writing Fellowship from the University of Texas; National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships in 1976 and 1990; the Frank O' Connor Memorial Short Story Award from Quartet magazine; the John H. McGinnis Short Story Award from Southwest Review; a Pushcart Prize Nomination from Southwest Review, and an award for Best Nonfiction Book by a Texan in 1987 from the Southwestern Booksellers Association. He belongs to PEN American Center, The Authors Guild, Writer's Guild of America West, and the Texas Institute of Letters. Web site: http://cwsmiththeauthor.com