Random House Does Triple with Smith
Hilary Redmon at Random House acquired North American rights to three books by Clint Smith. Smith (How the Word Is Passed) has won the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. The first book under contract, Just Beneath the Soil, chronicles trips he has taken to WWII memorial sites with people who have ties to them. The publisher said it will “focus on the experiences of groups of people whose stories often sit at the peripheries of the conflict’s dominant narrative, giving an intimate account of their lived experience during the war.” The Gernert Company’s Alia Hanna Habib represented Smith.