What is Helen Smith (writer)?
{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --> |image = |imagesize = |name = Helen Smith |caption = |pseudonym = |birth_date = November 1968 |birth_place = [[Brixton]], London, England |death_date = |death_place = |occupation = [[Writer]] |nationality = English |period = 1999-present |genre = [[Fiction]], [[Mystery fiction|Mystery]], [[Dystopian]], [[Children's]] |subject = |movement = |signature = |website = {{url|http://www.emperorsclothes.co.uk}} }} '''Helen Smith''' is an English novelist and [[dramatist]]. She's a member of the [[Writers' Guild of Great Britain]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.writersguild.org.uk/find-a-writer/books/helensmith |title=Smith, Helen |access-date=2012-12-18 |archive-date=2012-03-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311170922/http://www.writersguild.org.uk/find-a-writer/books/helensmith |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[English PEN]] and the [[Society of Authors]].<ref>http://www.societyofauthors.org/search_pages/author-detail.html?id=6793{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> She lives in [[Brixton]], London.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/clapham-north-the-dream-suburb-xgmpjvkzq67|title=Clapham North: the dream suburb|first=Carol|last=Lewis|date=13 May 2011|publisher=|via=www.thetimes.co.uk}}</ref> == Biography == Helen Smith was born in London in November 1968. She has one daughter named Lauren with the writer [[Damon Rochefort]]. When her daughter was small, they travelled extensively in [[Australia]], South East Asia, [[Hong Kong]] and [[South America]] before returning to the UK. Her first novel, [https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0575402628 Alison Wonderland],<ref>https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0575067187</ref> was published in 1999 by [[Gollancz]]. She was a winning writer in the [[Independent Radio Drama Productions|IRDP]] London Playwrights Festival.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irdp.co.uk/page2.htm|title=Festivals an