Clint Smith is an American writer, poet and scholar best known for How the Word Is Passed, a work of nonfiction that looks at how the history of slavery is remembered across the United States. It reached number one on the New York Times best-seller list and won the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. He is also the author of two poetry collections, Counting Descent, published in 2016, and Above Ground, published in 2023.
