Dennis Smith Biography

Dennis Smith is a former FDNY firefighter and is the best-known advocate for firefighters in the United States. In each day of his eighteen years as a New York City firefighter he developed profound respect for the professionalism of the firefighters with whom he worked and their willingness to give of themselves in the course of their duty.
His remarkable career as firefighter best-selling author magazine publisher and director of important not-for-profits provides him with the experience needed to help plan and manage fire emergency and charitable organizations throughout the United States.
Dennis Smith Firefighter Mr. Smith began his career as a firefighter in the New York Fire Department and served in some of the city’s most active and dangerous fire districts. When Mr. Smith published Report from Engine Co. 82 a non-fictional account of life in the South Bronx firehouse – the world’s busiest –in which he served the book became an immediate New York Times best seller sold more than 3 million copies and was translated into thirteen languages. Three more national best sellers about firefighting followed. In all Mr. Smith has written sixteen books and his A Song for Mary was chosen by Book-of-the-Month Club as the best memoir of 1999. His most recent best seller Report from Ground Zero was at the number 2 position on the NY Times list and has become the acknowledged historical record of that tragic day and the ensuing months. About this book the Senior Counsel to “The United States Commission on September 11th” has written “I have read much of the writing about the emergency response that day and have found “Report from Ground Zero” to be the closest to a definitive account.” His 16th book “Of Love And Courage” is an important novel that explores the status of woman in Islam in the setting of the religious and political turmoil in today’s world.

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