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Robert F. Smallwood is an American writer and technologist born in 1959 in Davenport, Iowa. He grew up in nearby Bettendorf, where he was an athletic, academic, and musical standout. After attending the University of Massachusetts Boston on a scholarly exchange program he graduated from the University of Northern Iowa in 1982 with honors and degrees in Business Management and Psychology. In 2000, Smallwood completed work on his Master of Business Administration degree at Loyola University New Orleans.
Smallwood moved to New Orleans where he worked for Burroughs Corporation (later Unisys after a merger with Sperry) selling mainframe computers to commercial banks. Later he worked for Wang Laboratories in the same field. In 1991 he became an independent IT consultant and in 1995 he merged with and co-founded IMERGE Consulting. A prolific writer on IT topics, he has published over 100 articles in trade journals.
He had begun working on his first novel, a New Orleans-based murder mystery, when Hurricane Katrina hit on August 29, 2005. The Five People You Meet in Hell: Surviving Katrina, Smallwood's account of his experience during the storm and in its aftermath, was his first book and the first personal account of the disaster to be published. One of the "five people" was Smallwood's friend and neighbor Harry Anderson, the comic actor who starred in Night Court, a popular 1980's sitcom. In 2006 Smallwood embarked on a 21-city book tour and interviews on C-SPAN (BookTV), BBC Radio, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, ABCNews.com and other major media outlets. He also published his first play that year, "Brando, Tennessee & Me." In 2007 he edited and published "Prisoners of Katrina" and in 2008 he published his first nonfiction tech book, "Taming the Email Tiger" and his first novel, "Jackson Squared."
As the executive director of the Louisiana Writers' Foundation, Smallwood was responsible for organizing a "Black & White Ball" at the Hotel Monteleone on the 40th anniversary of Truman Capote's famous New York event.
References
- Smallwood, Robert 2 (2005). The Five People You Meet in Hell: Surviving Katrina. BookSurge. ISBN 1419617249.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - Prescott, Jean (August 10, 2006). "A tale of New Orleans after Katrina: Deckhead goes right here". The Sun Herald.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Jones, Jeffrey (December 18, 2006). "New Orleans writers struggle to pen rebirth stories". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2008-05-25.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Burdeau, Cain (December 2, 2006). "Big Easy Recreates Capote's Masked Ball". The Associated Press. Retrieved 2008-05-25.
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