Elizabeth Smart (Canadian author)

Elizabeth Smart was a Canadian poet and novelist. Her book, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, detailed her romance with the poet George Barker. She is the subject of the 1991 biography, By Heart Elizabeth Smart a Life, by Rosemary Sullivan, and a film, Elizabeth Smart On the Side of the Angels, produced by Maya Gallus of Red Queen Productions.

Smart was born to a prominent family in Ottawa, Ontario her father, Russel Smart, was a lawyer, and the family had a summer house on Kingsmere Lake located next door to the future Prime Minister of Canada, William Lyon Mackenzie King. Her sister, Jane became a filmmaker, teacher and sculptor.

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