Sarah Smith (born December 9, 1947) is an American author living in Brookline, Massachusetts.
She holds a B.A. and a Ph.D. in English literature, both from Harvard. She was an assistant professor of English for several years before going to work in the computer industry. She has worked for Lisp Machines Inc., Bachman Inc., ITP Systems, Inc., and Effective Educational Tech which was acquired by Pearson Education in 2006.
She is the author of a four-novel historical mystery series set in turn of the century Boston and Paris about amnesiac Alexander von Reisden. She has also authored King of Space, a work of speculative fiction published as a hypertext novel by Eastgate Systems, Inc. in 1991, that places her among the pioneers of electronic literature. She has been a frequent speaker at Readercon in Boston.