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Hope anita smith biography

          A professional story-teller, Hope teaches poetry-writing workshops to all grade levels.

        1. A professional story-teller, Hope teaches poetry-writing workshops to all grade levels.
        2. Hope Anita Smith is an American poet and author of children's books, best known for winning the Coretta Scott King Honor for her middle grade novel Keeping the Night Watch.
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        4. HOPE ANITA SMITH is the author of the award-winning books The Way a Door Closes and Keeping the Night Watch.
        5. Hope Anita Smith, whose novels as poetry have garnered many awards, will give a reading at La Sierra University Oct. She attended LSU.

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          Hope Anita Smith

          BornAkron, Ohio, U.S.
          LanguageEnglish
          NationalityAmerican
          Alma materLa Sierra University
          GenrePoetry, middle grade fiction, picture books
          Years active1999–present
          Notable worksKeeping the Night Watch
          Notable awardsCoretta Scott King Award (2004)

          Hope Anita Smith is an American poet and author of children's books, best known for winning the Coretta Scott King Honor for her middle grade novel Keeping the Night Watch.

          Biography

          Smith was born in Akron, Ohio.

          She was introduced to the children's publishing industry via fellow author and teacher Myra Cohn Livingston, whose class she attended and ultimately discovered her voice and interest in writing for children there. She attended La Sierra University from 1980 to 1983, studying English, but ultimately did not graduate.

          Smith wrote her second picture book My Daddy Rules the World: Poems about Dads, with the