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Born: 11/19/1935  Charlevoix, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
Parents: Marcus Smith, Nellie Smith
Children: Heidi, Matje, Maida, Gudrun

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Smoke Street	Fiction	Adult	New York : Morrow	1984
	Doctor Blues	Fiction	Adult	New York : Morrow	1983
	The Delphinium Girl	Fiction	Adult	New York : Harper	1980
	The Moon Lamp	Fiction	Adult	New York : Knopf	1976
	The Death of the Detective - Reprinted 2007, Northwestern University Press.	Fiction	Adult	New York : Knopf	1974
	The Middleman - Novel of a man caught between being tortured by his wife and torment from within plays up the native character of the inhabitants of Charlevoix.	Fiction, Michigan	Adult	Boston: Little, Brown	1967
	Toyland - Although the action takes place throughout northern Michigan, the Toyland setting is the warped minds of two hired killers. Jensen and Pehr are the evil men in this unusual novel of criminal guilt.	Fiction, Michigan	Adult	Boston : Little, Brown	1965

What is the aim or goal of your writing: Mark Smith has been called a "writers writer", whose existentialist novels examine themes related to the idea that "man is a being who defines himself through his actions in a meaningless indifferent and ultimately treacherous world". These ideas are evident in this first novel. Smith's transient youth provided fuel for his works; he was at various times a merchant marine, student poet, European traveler, and Boston bohemian artist before becoming a novelist and college professor. His novels often draw comparisons to Albert Camus for their existential vision, and to Charles Dickens for their characterization.

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