Simple Plan (Smith)

Author Bio
• Birth—1965
• Where—Summit, New Jersey, USA
• Education—B.A., Columbia University
• Currently—lives in New York, New York

Scott Smith is an American author and screenwriter and is a graduate of Columbia University. He has published two suspense novels, A Simple Plan and The Ruins. His 1998 screen adaptation of A Simple Plan earned him an Academy Award nomination.

Scott Smith was born in Summit, New Jersey in 1965 and now lives in New York City. After studying at Dartmouth College and Columbia University in New York, he took up writing full time. He wrote the screenplay for his book A Simple Plan starring Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, and Bridget Fonda. This film was nominated for numerous awards, including two Academy Awards, one for Best Adapted Screenplay. The screenplay won numerous awards, such as a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award and a National Board of Review Award. Billy Bob Thornton also won numerous awards for best supporting actor for this film.

Smith's long awaited second novel, The Ruins, was published in 2006. Stephen King claims it as "The best horror novel of the new century." The movie was adapted to film in 2008. (From Wikipedia.)