Anna Deavere Smith: A Brief Biography

Anna Deavere Smith was born on September 18, 1950. Smith is currently 65 years old. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Smith is an author, an actress, a playwright and she's even a professor. Smith is known by a lot of people because all of her work on television. Smith was raised in a segregated middle - class section of Baltimore. She was also a shy child according to (Britannica.com) During her middle school years, she discovered her love for mimicry. Smith first started studying linguistics at Beaver College the name has changed now to Acardia University. She was one of the few African American students at Beaver College in the 1960's. While she was there she noticed more African Americans should be studying not only a few, she decided