Sarah Smarsh
Author · 5 books
Sarah Smarsh is a Kansas-based journalist who has reported for The New York Times, The Guardian and many other publications. Her first book, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth, was a finalist for the National Book Award. A 2018 research fellow at Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Smarsh is a frequent speaker and commentator on economic inequality.
Books
Outlaw Tales of Kansas
True Stories Of The Sunflower State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats
2010
Bone of the Bone
Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class
2024
It Happened in Kansas
Remarkable Events that Shaped History
2010
She Come By It Natural
Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs
2020
Heartland
A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
2018
