Smith, Annick, 1936-

Annick Smith is a writer and filmmaker whose work deals primarily with the literature and history of Montana, memoir, travel, and environmental issues. Born in Paris, France, in 1936, she grew up in Chicago, Illinois. Since 1964, she has lived in Montana, where her husband, David Smith taught at the University of Montana. After his death, she stayed on their rural homestead and raised their four sons. Annick Smith has worked as a high school teacher, a book editor for the University of Washington Press and and editor for The Montana Business Quarterly. She is known for her film credits, which include Heartland, based on Elinore Pruitt Stewart's Letters of a Woman Homesteader, co-producer of Robert Redford's adaptation of Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It, and associate producer of Peacock's War. Smith is a founding board member of the Sundance Film Institute in Utah. In Missoula, she founded the Hellgate Writers, a literary center. She has participated in numerous workshops and conferences. Smith and William Kittredge edited The Last Best Place, a best selling Montana anthology. In addition to her books, Homestead and Big Bluestem, her numerous articles, poems, and stories have appeared in Audubon, Outside, National Geographic Traveler, Story and other magazines and journals.

From the description of Annick Smith papers, 1940-2000and undated. (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 720657634

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