April Smith is an American novelist, Emmy-nominated television writer and producer. Her most recent novel, historical fiction, is A STAR FOR MRS. BLAKE, chosen by the Cincinnati Public Library as their 2014 "On The Same Page" all-city reads book. Other works include a series of four mystery/thrillers featuring FBI Special Agent Ana Grey. One of them, GOOD MORNING, KILLER, was adapted and executive produced by Smith for the TNT Mystery Movie Nights in 2011. She is also the author of a stand-alone thriller about the only woman baseball scout in the major leagues, BE THE ONE. 

1949 in The Bronx