Claymore, Jason

Kim Smith was born in London, England, but raised in Eau Claire, Wisconsin in a mixed-country family by an English mother and an American father. He earned an interdisciplinary doctorate in political science and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin--Madison. He retired in 2009 after a 30-year career teaching journalism at four universities. Since he retired, he has used his free time to contemplate the meaning of life and to write.