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Ali Smith


Born
in Inverness, Scotland
August 24, 1962

Genre
Literature & Fiction

Influences
Helena Mennie Shire ...more


Ali Smith is a writer, born in Inverness, Scotland, to working-class parents. She was raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge. She studied at Aberdeen, and then at Cambridge, for a Ph.D. that was never finished. In a 2004 interview with writing magazine Mslexia, she talked briefly about the difficulty of becoming ill with chronic fatigue syndrome for a year and how it forced her to give up her job as a lecturer at University of Strathclyde to focus on what she really wanted to do: writing. She has been with her partner Sarah Wood for 17 years and dedicates all her books to her.

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Average rating: 3.74 · 230,887 ratings · 28,171 reviews · 147 distinct works • Similar authors
Autumn (Seasonal Quartet, #1)
3.67 avg rating — 75,403 ratings — published 2016 — 80 editions
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How to be Both
3.66 avg rating — 24,948 ratings — published 2014 — 54 editions
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Winter (Seasonal, #2)
3.81 avg rating — 21,778 ratings — published 2017 — 68 editions
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Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)
4.08 avg rating — 15,118 ratings — published 2019 — 65 editions
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Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
4.05 avg rating — 11,085 ratings — published 2020 — 45 editions
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The Accidental
3.37 avg rating — 13,028 ratings — published 2005 — 88 editions
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Girl Meets Boy
3.79 avg rating — 9,610 ratings — published 2007 — 61 editions
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There But For The
3.49 avg rating — 9,575 ratings — published 2011 — 57 editions
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Hotel World
3.59 avg rating — 7,362 ratings — published 2001 — 54 editions
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Companion Piece
3.82 avg rating — 6,452 ratings — published 2022 — 26 editions
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Quotes by Ali Smith  (?)
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“Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.”
― Ali Smith
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“She likes to read, she reads all the time, and she prefers to be reading several things at once, she says it gives endless perspective and dimension.”
― Ali Smith, Autumn
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“To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.”
― Ali Smith, Artful
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Cover to Cover Ch...: Susan's (California) 2011 challenge 7 20 Jun 04, 2011 03:18PM  
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Challenge: 50 Books: Daniel M's 50 Books in 1 Year Challenge 10 57 Sep 13, 2011 07:23PM  
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