Patrick Smithwick
Patrick Smithwick is the author of the acclaimed trilogy of memoirs Racing My Father, Flying Change (winner of the prestigious $10,000 Dr. Tony Ryan Literary Prize), and Racing Time. Patrick has won awards for the writing of newspaper features, short stories and magazine pieces while working as a steeplechase jockey, Chesapeake Bay waterman, newspaper reporter, and teacher of English and medieval history at schools and colleges. He holds a B.A. and M.L.A. from Johns Hopkins University, an M.A. from Hollins College, and lives with his wife Ansley on the farm where he was raised in Monkton, Maryland.
Reviews
"Racing Time will make you laugh, will make you cry, and will leave you with the comfort of three words: Love never dies." —Thoroughbred breeder and owner Cythia McGinness "
“America, Patrick Smithwick might have just given you a modern masterpiece, if you have the eyes to see it. . . . Any novelist who created a character as original, as compelling as Speedy Kiniel . . . would be hailed as a genius." —Author Dr. Andrew Lemon
