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Ali Smith


Born
in Inverness, Scotland
August 24, 1962

Genre
Literature & Fiction

Influences
Helena Mennie Shire, Muriel Spark, William Shakespeare ...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 · 265,781 ratings · 34,101 reviews · 151 distinct works • Similar authors
Autumn (Seasonal Quartet, #1)
3.65 avg rating — 82,360 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions
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How to be Both
3.66 avg rating — 27,554 ratings — published 2014 — 55 editions
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Winter (Seasonal, #2)
3.79 avg rating — 24,573 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions
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Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)
4.05 avg rating — 16,926 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions
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Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
4.03 avg rating — 12,551 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions
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The Accidental
3.37 avg rating — 13,782 ratings — published 2005 — 74 editions
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Girl Meets Boy
3.78 avg rating — 10,548 ratings — published 2007 — 64 editions
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There But For The
3.50 avg rating — 10,048 ratings — published 2011 — 50 editions
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Gliff
3.91 avg rating — 8,139 ratings — published 2024 — 24 editions
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Hotel World
3.59 avg rating — 8,154 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions
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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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“Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.”
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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.”
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