Daniel P. Smith
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Journalist, Author, and Speaker |
| Location | Chicagoland, Illinois, United States |
| Introduction | An award-winning, nationally published journalist, Daniel P. Smith left his second career as a high school English teacher behind in 2004 to pursue the writing life. Less than five months removed from the classroom and 23 years old, Smith teamed with Chicago-based Lake Claremont Press to write On the Job: Behind the Stars of the Chicago Police Department, his first book and one inspired by his roots in a Chicago Police family. A 2003 graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he was an accomplished track and field athlete, Smith lives in Chicago with his wife, Tina, and children, Fiona and Gavin. |
| Favorite books | Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum, One More Time by Mike Royko, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Plainsong by Kent Haruf, All Souls by Michael Patrick MacDonald, Into the Wild by John Krakauer, Whirligig by Paul Fleischman, Chicago: City on the Make by Nelson Algren, Working by Studs Terkel, The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold |