Martin Cruz Smith
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| Born | Martin William Smith November 3, 1942 Reading, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Pen name | • Nick Carter • Jake Logan • Martin Quinn • Simon Quinn • Martin Smith • Martin Cruz Smith |
| Occupation | • Novelist • Screenwriter |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
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Mystery Crime |
| Notable works | Gorky Park |
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Martin Cruz Smith (born November 3, 1942) is an American mystery novelist. He is best known for his eight-novel series on Russian investigator Arkady Renko, who was first introduced in 1981 with Gorky Park.
Martin William Smith was born in Reading, Pennsylvania from John Calhoun Smith, jazz musician and Louise Lopez, his amerindian mother from Pueblo descent, jazz singer and Amerindian rights militant. Martin was educated at Germantown Academy, in Germantown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, then at the University of Pennsylvania, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in creative writing in 1964. He is of partly Pueblo,Spanish,Senecu del Sur and Yaqui ancestry.
From 1965 to 1969, Smith worked as a journalist and began writing fiction in the early 1970s.
Canto for a Gypsy, his third novel overall and the second to feature Roman Grey, a gypsy art dealer in New York City, was nominated for an Edgar Award.
Nightwing (1977), also an Edgar nominee, was his breakthrough novel, and he adapted it for a feature film of the same name (1979).
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