Order of Ali Smith Books

Ali Smith is a Scottish author, playwright, and journalist. She is primarily recognized for her fiction, particularly for her novel The Accidental, which won the 2005 Whitbread Novel of the Year, as well as Girl Meets Boys, which was named Book of the Year by Diva magazine readers, and How to Be Both, which received the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize and the Novel Award at the 2014 Costa Book Awards. Smith was born and raised in Inverness. She later obtained a joint degree in English language and literature from the University of Aberdeen and pursued a PhD in American and Irish modernism at Newnham College, Cambridge. During her PhD studies, she began writing plays, which ultimately led her to concentrate on writing.