Russell Smith was born on 2 August 1963 in Johannesburg, South Africa and came to Canada in 1967. He grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia and studied French literature at Queen's University, the Université de Poitiers, and the Université de Paris (III). He earned an M.A. in French from Queen's University in 1987. Smith writes two weekly columns for The Globe and Mail: one on culture and the arts and the other on advice for men. He currently teaches creative writing in the MFA program at the University of Guelph. Smith lives in Toronto.

Books by Russell Smith

	1994 How Insensitive (novel)
	1998 Noise (novel)
	1999 Young Men (short stories)
	2002 The Princess and the Whiskheads (novella)
	2003 Diana (as Diane Savage, novel) A Diary in the Second Person
	2004 Muriella Pent (novel)
	2005 Men's Style (non-fiction) The Thinking Man's Guide to Dress
	2010 Girl Crazy (novel)
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Awards

• Books in Canada First Novel Award
  • 1994 – How Insensitive – Shortlisted

• Danuta Gleed Literary Award
  • 2000 – Young Men – Shortlisted

• Governor General's Literary Awards: Fiction
  • 1994 – How Insensitive – Shortlisted

• Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
  • 2004 – Muriella Pent – Shortlisted

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Added 09 April 2011.
Updated 01 March 2015.