C.W. Smith

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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1975
  • Latest Book:
    July 2023
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Book List in Order: 18 titles

  • Country Music

    C.W. Smith's Country Music is a raw comic romp that offers up a shrewd anatomy of sexual and social stances. It opens when Bobby Joe Gilbert, Hedorville's Bane to Virgins and Most Unlikely to Succeed, confronts an unwelcome question: "What are you go...

  • The Vestal Virgin Room

    C.W. Smith’s hit novel The Vestal Virgin Room is a tragi-comic love story about a married couple and the agonies and ecstasies of being hitched through thick and thin. Don and Dottie Baxter are a husband-and-wife musical duo (both sing while she’...

  • Uncle Dad

  • Thin Men of Haddam

    Set in southwestern New Mexico, “Thin Men of Haddam” deals with the problems of Hispanics trying to make their way in an Anglo world...

  • Letters from the Horse Latitudes

    In the "horse latitudes" of the Gulf of Mexico, that zone where periods of high pressure keep winds away, becalmed sailors sometimes tossed the horses overboard to conserve water. In these unapologetically traditional and realistic stories, character...

  • Buffalo Nickel

    Interlaced with Kiowa legends that make the story a vivid tapestry of fable and fact, Buffalo Nickel is an all-American novel of love, money, and race -- and an epic work of historical imagination. At its heart is a rags-to-riches story of an Indian...

  • Hunter's Trap

    When first published in hard cover, C.W. Smith’s Hunter’s Trap was praised by Kirkus Reviews as a "Beautifully bitter Depression-era revenge melodrama in which good guys lose, good women die, and virtue's reward is unreasonable tragedy." The nove...

  • Understanding Women

    Named “best novel” by the Texas Institute of Letters, C.W. Smith’s Understanding Women is the hilarious and moving account of a teenage boy’s encounters in the prickly thicket of adult domestic difficulties. When James (Jimbo) Proctor gets an...

  • Gabriel's Eye

    This intelligent new novel by well known author C.W. Smith examines the process by which a decent and well- meaning young woman makes a moral error with tragic consequences.

    Twenty-six year old Susan is the kind of teacher every student falls ...



  • Purple Hearts

    Set during the turmoil of World War II, Purple Hearts is the story of the epileptic scion of an East Texas timber and oil fortune and his marriage to a stunning stranger desperate for sanctuary. Though naive and virginal, thirty-year-old Georgie Kara...

  • Losing Face

    What would happen if you were in a bad accident, your face was burned beyond recognition, and the doctors put a new face on for you? What would happen if your memory was gone too? Now you are indirectly connected to a suicide or is it a homicide, mis...

  • Steplings

    Nineteen-year-old Jason is lost. The rush of graduation parties has subsided, the ubiquitous discussion of college departures dimmed to a dull roar. His former classmates have made elaborate plans, but the only date on Jason’s calendar is a court a...

  • The Write Side Up

    The Write Side Up: Stories by Chris Bartholomew, K. Kellogg Smith, Craig Terlson, Stewart Sumner, Walker R. Singleton, Mark Terence Chapman, Sandra Cox, Saulander Evans, Darryl L. Wylie, Darrell E. Bottoms, Nonnie Augustine, Marjorie McKinney, Matt M...

  • Wasatch Cache

  • Journal of a Trip to California

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • Girl Flees Circus

    When nineteen-year-old aviatrix Katie Burke crash lands her biplane on the only street in No Name, New Mexico, her arrival changes her life and the lives of everyone around her. As Katie and her craft need repair, locals take her in and help her, inc...

  • Ten Sleep

    On a winding mountain road near Ten Sleep, Wyoming, two young climbers arrive at the scene of a violent car accident. Their attempts to resuscitate the driver fail, but amongst the wreckage they find a stash of heroin-valuable enough to fund many yea...

  • The Museum of Marriage

    The Museum of Marriage and Other Stories showcases characters struggling with the demands and mysteries of the solitary life, romance, and marriage. The young men of The Balcony Scene and Big Rig worry over their futures with those exotic creatures o...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

C.W. Smith has published 18 books.

C.W. Smith does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Museum of Marriage, was published in July 2023.

The first book by C.W. Smith, Country Music, was published in June 1975.

No. C.W. Smith does not write books in series.
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