Gregory White Smith Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Gregory White Smith (October 4, 1951 – April 10, 2014) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer of both Jackson Pollock and Vincent van Gogh. In addition to writing 18 books with Steven Naifeh, Smith was an accomplished musician, historic preservationist, art collector, philanthropist, attorney, and businessman who founded several companies including Best Lawyers® that spawned an entire industry of professional rankings.His brain tumor, which was diagnosed in 1975, led to 13 brain surgeries as well as radiation and nuclear medicine treatments and experimental chemotherapeutic regimens. His search for cutting edge medical care was profiled on CBS’s “60 Minutes” and recounted in his book Making Miracles Happen.Jackson Pollock: An American Saga was published in 1990. The Philadelphia Enquirer called the book “Brilliant and definitive … so absorbing in its narrative drive and so exhaustively detailed that it makes everything that came before seem like trial balloons." Van Gogh: The Life, which Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times called “magisterial,” was published in 2011 with a companion website hosting over 6,000 pages of notes. The book stirred global controversy by debunking the widely accepted theory that Van Gogh committed suicide and arguing instead that village bullies shot him.“As a tale of ambition, hard-fought fleeting triumphs and dark despair,” said the San Francisco Gate, “it has the dramatic pull of a gripping nineteenth-century novel. … [The] biography enriches the eye. Its insight and vast information vault readers into the work of Van Gogh and the artists of his time. It deepens the experience of looking at art." “A tour de force,” said the Los Angeles Times, a “sweepingly authoritative, astonishingly textured book."He died of a rare brain tumor, which he battled for four decades, in 2014 at the age of 62.
He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School, class of 1977, and has written 12 books with partner Steven Naifeh, including four New York Times bestsellers and two television miniseries. Their _Jackson Pollock: An American Saga_ won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for biography and was a National Book Award finalist. They are publishers of 'The Best Lawyers in America' and founders of the organization "Best Doctors", which matches patients who have life-threatening illnesses with appropriately skilled physicians for the treatment of critical medical problems.
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Diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor in 1986, Smith was told he had only months to live. With encouragement from his partner and nonfiction collaborator, Steven Naifeh, and friend Charles Grodin, he consulted specialists until he found one willing to attempt a risky experimental treatment. Smith wound up with side effects: a numb side of his face, a deaf ear, and a slight speech impediment, but he survived.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Pollock
2000
book "Jackson Pollock: An American Saga"
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Charlie Rose
2012
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Tavis Smiley
2011
TV Series
Himself
60 Minutes
2011
TV Series documentary
Himself - Author (segment "The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh")
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
60 Minutes
2012
TV Series documentary
Himself - Author (segment "The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh")
Known for movies
Pollock (2000) as Writer
60 Minutes (2011-2012) as Himself - Author (segment "The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh")
$100,000
