Brad Smith is the author of numerous novels, including The Return of Kid Cooper, which won the Western Writers of America 2019 Spur Award for Best Traditional Novel. One-Eyed Jacks was nominated for the Dashiell Hammett Prize, and All Hat became a 2007 major motion picture staring Keith Carradine. He has worked as a farmer, signalman, insulator, truck driver, bartender, schoolteacher, maintenance mechanic, roofer, and carpenter. |