birth_place nationality notableworks amla_mater birth_date spouse genre image article_title name occupation
new jersey american `` not quite what i was planning '' , university of pennsylvania 17 september 1968 piper kerman 2006 six-word memoirs larry smith 2014 -lrb- cropped -rrb- . jpg larry smith -lrb- editor -rrb-
 larry smith non-fiction writer , editor
larry smith -lrb- editor -rrb-

larry smith -lrb- born september 17 , 1968 -rrb- is an american author and editor , and publisher of `` smith magazine '' .
he is best known for developing the best-selling book series `` six-word memoirs , '' a literary subgenre that took on a life of its own in popular culture as publications began holding reader contests and publishing the results .
the form has been described as `` american haiku . ''
smith credits ernest hemingway 's reputed shortest story , '' , '' with inspiring the viral literary movement .
