About Sarah Smiley
"A witty observer of her life and times!" - The Times-Record
"an unexpected voice..." - The New York Times Magazine
What the average human should know about me:
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I have three boys. They like to wrestle, bump heads, and eat dirt. Often, I let them.
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I have one husband. He took our kids to the wrong fast-food restaurant for their birthday party.
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When I was in elementary school I wrote** my first "book," a 5-page sequel to Gone With the Wind. I've been writing ever since.
**During this same time I also did alot of crying, especially when the elastic on my pantyhose broke and fell to my knees. This, and not my sequel to Gone With the Wind, should explain much more than you want to know.
If you must know more...
Navy wife Sarah Smiley is the author of Shore Duty, a syndicated newspaper column that reaches more than 2 million readers weekly, and of the memoir GOING OVERBOARD: The Misadventures of a Military Wife (Penguin/New American Library, 2005).
Sarah has been featured in The New York Times Magazine ("Confessions of a Military Wife," November 6, 2005) and Newsweek, and on ABC's Nightline, CNN American Morning, CNN Sunday Morning, CBS The Early Show, Fox News Studio B, and MSNBC Live.
Sarah's life rights were recently optioned by Kelsey Grammer's company, Grammnet, and Paramount Television. A half-hour sitcom based on her columns and book is now in development. Film and dramatic rights are represented by Shari Smiley (surprisingly, no relation) at Creative Artist Agency in Los Angeles, CAA. Sarah's literary work is represented by Jenny Bent at Trident Media Group in New York.
Sarah has been a Navy dependent for more than 30 years. She is the daughter of Lindell Rutherford, a career Navy F-14 pilot, and spent most of her upbringing amid the aircraft carriers and Navy bases in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Sarah Smiley has a B.S. in Education from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. She is the mother of three young boys -- Ford (6), Owen (4), and baby Lindell (1) -- and the wife of Navy flight instructor, Lt. Cmdr. Dustin Smiley.