Carol Houck Smith, editor, friend, and bon vivant, died on December 1 at the age of 85. A vice president and editor-at-large at W.W. Norton & Company, Smith specialized in literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, and poetry. Authors with whom she worked include Andrea Barrett, Stanley Kunitz, Gerald Stern, Charles Baxter, and Rita Dove, to mention only a few. Smith served as a trustee of Ploughshares. She was a former board member of AWP, and she received an award for career achievement from PEN. Working her way up at Norton from a secretarial position through the editorial ranks during her sixty-year tenure at the publishing house, Smith edited two National Book Award winners and a Pulitzer Prize winner. Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference hosts an endowed Carol Houck Smith Scholarship in Poetry; the Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellowship is endowed at the University of Wisconsin.