Troy D. Smith
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- Author David Robbins talks about fun stuff.
- Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine
- Contemplations of an Unconventional Christian
- Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and The Wild West
- Gary Dobbs at the tainted archive
- Heath Lowrance
- I Was A Bronze Age Boy
- Larry D. Sweazy
- MAKE MINE MYSTERY
- Once Upon A Time In The West In Comics
- Rough Edges
- Saddlebums Western Review
- Western Fictioneers
- WRITING FOR THE BRAND
| Gender | MALE |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Location | Sparta, TN |
| Introduction | Troy D. Smith was born in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee in 1968. He has waxed floors, moved furniture, been a lay preacher, and taught high school and college. He writes in a variety of genres, achieving his earliest successes with westerns -his first published short story appeared in 1995 in Louis L'Amour Western Magazine, and he won the Spur Award in 2001 for the novel Bound for the Promise-Land (being a finalist on two other occasions.) He received his PhD in history from the University of Illinois, and is currently teaching history at Tennessee Tech. |