Gregory White Smith
Gregory White Smith was a Pulitzer Prizewinning American biographer of both Jackson Pollock and Vincent van Gogh. In addition to writingbooks with Steven Naifeh, Smith was an accomplished musician, historic preservationist, art collector, philanthropist, attorney, and businessman who founded several companies including Best Lawyers that spawned an entire industry of professional rankings.
Smith was born in Ithaca, New York on October 4, 1951, and was raised in Columbus, Ohio, where he attended the Columbus Academy. Walking to school beginning at an early age, Naifeh said, he would think of a sentence. Then, talking out loud, as he did for the rest of his life, he would try different ways to articulate the same thought, clarifying the idea and giving the words more character and force. It was the beginning of a lifelong love of and gift for words. Also at age eight, Smith began dictating short novels into a Dictaphone his father used in business, which his mother transcribed. They were onlyorpages long, Smith said, and the work of a child. But I was so thrilled that my mother typed them. There was my name at the top of the first page, By Gregory White Smith.
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