Tara Bray Smith

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Tara Bray Smith is an American author.

Tara Bray Smith was born and grew up in Hawai'i, USA. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Columbia University, and now lives in New York state. She was the author of an article about Hawai'i that appeared in Granta 77: "What We Think of America." Recently, Simon & Schuster published Smith's well-received memoir, West of Then: A Mother, a Daughter, and a Journey Past Paradise[1] about her mother and her mother's family in Hawaii, rooted in the diminished wealth of 19th century sugar plantations. She's also the author of a teen novel, Betwixt.[2]