Tara Bray Smith
Tara Bray Smith is an American author. She has produced the books West of Then: A Mother, a Daughter, and a Journey Past Paradise and Betwixt.
Early years and career
Smith was born and grew up in Hawaii. She graduated from Dartmouth College and received a master's in non-fiction writing from Columbia University.Her first book was a memoir, West of Then: A Mother, a Daughter, and a Journey Past Paradise, published in 2004. It tells the story of her actual and metaphorical search for her drug-addicted mother, as well as the history of her mother's family in Hawaii, rooted in the wealth and subsequent decline of 19th-century sugarcane plantations. Smith also wrote an article about Hawaii that appeared in Granta 77: What We Think of America.
Smith made her debut as a young [adult fiction|young adult] author with her second book, the teen novel Betwixt, which became the basis for a pilot for The CW Television Network, but was never turned into a series. The proposed series, called Betwixt and then Changelings, would have starred three teenagers who find out they are "changelings" who have the ability to protect the world from evil.