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Larry Smith (born September 17, 1968) is an American author and editor, and publisher of ''SMITH Magazine''. He is best known for developing the best-selling book series "Six-Word Memoirs," a literary subgenre that took on a life of its own in popular culture as publications began holding reader contests and publishing the results.〔Kloer, Phil. ("Write your six-word memoir contest," ''The Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' (October 11, 2007). )〕 The form has been described as "American haiku."〔("It All Happened Here in Philadelphia," ''Philadelphia'' magazine. )〕 Smith credits Ernest Hemingway's reputed shortest story, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn,” with inspiring the viral literary movement.〔Widdicombe, Lizzie. ("Say It All in Six Words," ''New Yorker'' (February 25, 2008). )〕 ==Background and early career== Smith grew up in New Jersey, the son of Burlington attorney Louis Smith and his wife Carol, a clinical social worker. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. He worked as a founding editor of the magazine ''P.O.V.'' and editor-in-chief of its sister publication, ''Egg'', as well as an editor of ''Might'' magazine with Dave Eggers. He was also managing editor of the news service AlterNet. and editor of the city guide network, Boulevards. Smith also worked as executive editor of ''Yahoo! Internet Life'', editor at ''ESPN The Magazine'', and articles editor at ''Men's Journal''. His writing has appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''Popular Science'', ''Men’s Health'', ''Salon'', ''Slate'', as well as other places. In 2004, Smith's then-fiancée, Piper Kerman, served a 13-month sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury, CT, the result of a 1998 arrest for drug-related offenses committed about five years prior. Smith visited her in prison almost every week, and wrote about the experience in the ''New York Times''.〔(A Life to Live, This Side of the Bars )〕〔(Prison Day 1 )〕 Kerman later wrote a memoir about the experience, ''Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison'', which was subsequently made into a television show by Netflix productions, in which Smith's analogue ("Larry Bloom") is played by Jason Biggs. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Larry Smith (editor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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