Smith wrote while he was working as a biologist, rising at four in the morning before starting his day job. As a senior research biologist, he helped conservation biologists reintroduce red wolves into the wild. For more than twenty years, he conducted research and traveled for the zoo as zookeeper, senior zookeeper, curator of mammals and birds, general curator, assistant zoo director, and zoo director. Originally an English major at Portland State University, he switched to biology when he took a job at the Portland Zoo (now the Oregon Zoo), where he found that he loved working with animals. He attended Grant and Lincoln High Schools in Portland and received a GED diploma when he was sixteen. Roland Smith was born in Portland on November 30, 1951, to Roland Charles (Smitty) Smith and Melva May (Hap) Smith. His prize-winning publications include both fiction and nonfiction, totaling about 50 titles. Smith writes about characters who face high-stakes situations with daring and courage, often working together to achieve an outcome. He has described himself as a writer of "adventure, animals, and more," and his many books have children and teens at the center of the excitement. Author and former zookeeper Roland Smith said it was the gift of a typewriter from his parents when he was five years old that sparked his love of writing.
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