Janet Adam Smith, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Janet Adam Smith

Scottish writer, editor and journalist

Date of Birth: 09-Dec-1905

Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 11-Sep-1999

Profession: writer, editor

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Janet Buchanan Adam Smith OBE (9 December 1905 – 11 September 1999) was a writer, editor, literary journalist and champion of Scottish literature.
She was active from the 1930s through to the end of the century and noted for her elegant prose, her penetrating judgement, her independence of mind – and her deep love of mountains and mountaineering. Leonard Miall wrote: “Biographer, mountaineer, critic, literary editor, textual scholar, comic versifier, visiting professor, hostess, anthologist, traveller – there seemed to be nothing at which Janet Adam Smith did not shine.
And she shone with an intensity that made others glow in response.”