Robert E. Howard
In 2019, Smith was awarded the 2018 Atlantean Award for Outstanding Achievement, Book, by the Robert E. Howard Foundation for "Robert E. Howard: A Literary Biography" (Pulp Hero Press, 2018, ). His Guest of Honor acceptance speech, given at a Howard Days ceremony in Cross Plains, Texas, in June 2019, titled “Robert E. Howard: A Literary Reckoning,” is available on YouTube (video by Ben Friberg) and appears in "The Dark Man: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Literary Studies" Vol. 10, No. 2, December 2019.