Bob Smith grew up in Hot Springs, Arkansas.  After graduation from high school, he spent two years at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, before joining the Navy.  During his time in the Navy he met and married his future wife, Barbara Williams.  Upon his discharge from the Navy, he went into the aluminum products business with his father in Hot Springs.

In the early 1980s, Bob sold the business and went back to college at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, where he received a business degree with a major in accounting.  Soon after graduation in 1985, Ouachita Technical College, in Malvern, Arkansas, hired him to teach math and accounting. During those years he commuted to Henderson State in the evenings, where he earned a master’s degree in business.

Bob retired from teaching in May 2000.  He wrote on and off for a number of years before finally getting serious about it after retirement.

Freeze Time Media published his first book, “The Left Side of Reality,” in 2013, and his second book, “No Greater Love,” that same year.

Bob and Barbara live in Hot Springs Village, Arkansas, where Bob enjoys golf, writing, and being active in his church.  They have two children and six grandchildren.  Their son, Greg, and his wife, Sue, live in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and their daughter, Sharon, and her husband, Robert, live in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.