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Curt Smith grew up in Caledonia, New York and graduated from SUNY at Geneseo in 1973.

From 1975 to 1979, Smith worked as the assistant director of communications/press relations at Hamilton College.

Smith is an acclaimed author, radio/television host, columnist and former presidential speech writer, according to his site, curtsmithusa.com.

Smith hosts a weekly radio show called "Perspectives" from Rochester, New York. Some of his past guests include: John Zogby, Dan Rather, Emeril Lagasse and George H. W. Bush.

He also hosts a twice-weekly television segment on CBS called "Talking Point," discussing issues from politics to education.

Smith is also a columnist for the Messenger-Post Newspaper and a senior lecturer of English at the University of Rochester.

He has also written ten books: What Baseball Means to Me, Voices of the Game, Storied Stadiums, Windows on the White House, Our House, Of Mikes and Men, Long Time Gone, A Fine Sense of Rediculous, America's Dizzy Dean, The Storytellers and The Red Sox Fan's Little Book of Wisdom.

Smith worked as a Gannett Company reporter, speechwriter to former Texas Governor John Connally and the Saturday Evening Post senior editor before he began working at the White House with George Bush in 1989. He wrote the most speeches for the former president than anyone else. Some of his speeches include: Nixon and Reagan Library decication speeches and the USS Missouri address for the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor.

-Profile by Jennifer L. Blanchard

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