Thorne Smith

1892–1934

5 standalone books

James Thorne Smith, Jr. was an American writer known for his humorous supernatural fantasy fiction, published under the byline Thorne Smith. He was born in Annapolis, Maryland, to a Navy commodore, and attended Dartmouth College. Smith achieved success with the publication of Topper in 1926, a novel that became the foundation of his fame, and he was an early resident of Free Acres, a social experimental community in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. He died of a heart attack in 1934 while vacationing in Florida.

Born

1892