Ronald L. Smith

Ronald L. Smith is a children's book author. He is the author of Hoodoo (2015). For Hoodoo, Smith won the American Library Association's Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent. Smith was born in Maine to a military family that moved frequently; he also lived in Japan, Alabama, Michigan, Washington, DC, South Carolina, and Delaware, among other places. His love of fantasy and science fiction novels began as a child, but he first worked as a writer in advertising before turning to writing children's fiction. Smith lives in Baltimore.