J.D. Smith
Jason Douglas Smith, was born on Jan, 11 1977, in Norwalk CT. He was the first of three children born to his loving parents, David and Lillian Smith. From the moment Jason could crawl he demanded constant supervision or else he was bound to end up somewhere he didn’t belong. He was a free spirit that rejected conformity even before he understood the notion. His mother would dress him in a suit and tie for Sunday school and if not watched, he would jump on his bike and find the deepest, muddiest puddle to ride through.
School was of no interest to Jason. He was inspired by authors such as, J.D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, authors who lived their lives freely and wrote about it. That was the education he desired, the knowledge that could only be attained by the experience of living life. In true adventurous, Kerouac fashion, Jason would spend the summer between his seventeenth and eighteenth birthday hitchhiking up and down the east coast, sleeping under the piers of the New Jersey Shore and aspiring to have an experience worth writing about.
By eighteen he had dropped out of High School and was on his way to California to become a writer. In an effort to fine tune his raw talent, he forged the necessary signatures to attend a few years of college; studying English, Philosophy, and Psychology exclusively. Realizing that Math and Science were a requirement for his degree, he dropped out. He spent the next fifteen years writing everything from short stories to poetry, including screenplays.
Finally Jason discovered that his real passion was for novels.
After years of little success, he returned to his childhood home in Connecticut to help his father during the final stages of his mother’s life. The boredom of small town living would help him rediscover a passion for writing and his mother’s untimely death would be the catalyst that inspired him to complete his first novel.
Jason currently resides in Connecticut; his next work germinating within the soil of his brilliant and boundless mind.
