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Vern E. Smith

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in Natchez, Mississippi, The United States

February 13, 1946

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Vernon Emile Smith (Natchez, Mississippi, 1946) studied at San Francisco university. In 1971, he begun to work with several newspapers in California, later he worked for Newsweek in Detroit. His article «Detroit's Heroin Subculture» won the Detroit Press Club Foundation prize and became the inspiration of his only novel, The Jones Men, published in 1974 and traslated in spanish, italian and french.
For more than twenty years he continued to work for Newsweek in Atlanta, were he mostly wrote articles about Vietnam's veterans and other social issues as the movements for Civil Rights and the O. J. Simpson case. Vern Smith always tried to work for a cinema-verité film adaptation of The Jones Men and recently he start working on a second novel, ...more

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	Los reyes del jaco 3.95 avg rating — 248 ratings — published 1974 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Charlie Company: What Vietnam Did to Us by Peter Goldman, Tony Fuller, Richard Manning (Contributor) 3.93 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 1983 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brothers: Black and Poor a True Story of Courage and Survival (Newsweek Book) by Sylvester Monroe, Peter Goldman, Vern E. Smith 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Goddamn! Goddamn!” he said. “That’s crazy. Who told you that? Who is ‘they’? They a motherfuckin’ lie whoever they is if they told you somethin’ like that.”
― Vern E. Smith, The Jones Men

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