Biography
Scott B. Smith is an American novelist and screenwriter. Born on 13 July 1965 in Summit, New Jersey, he studied at Dartmouth College and earned an MFA in writing from Columbia University before writing full time.
His debut novel, A Simple Plan (1993), was adapted by Smith into a 1998 film directed by Sam Raimi; the screenplay earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. His second novel, The Ruins (2006), was also adapted into a film in 2008 from his own screenplay. Smith wrote the screenplays for the films Siberia (2018) and The Burnt Orange Heresy (2020). He created, wrote and executive-produced the television series The Peripheral (2022).
