Smith, Susy (1911-?)

Journalist and author of a number of books on psychical subjects and parapsychology. She was born on June 2, 1911, in Washington, D.C. She attended the University of Texas and the University of Arizona. She was a columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune and the Desert News, in Salt Lake City, Utah, and also conducted radio programs on shopping information at Daytona Beach, Florida.

Smith has spent most of her life as a freelance writer, and for a period she worked as an editor at Sherbourne Press on the popular "… for the Millions" series. Besides her own many books, she edited the one-volume edition of F. W. H. Myers 's Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death for University Books in 1961. She was a member of the Society for Psychical Research, London; the American Society for Psychical Research; the International Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship; the Association for Research and Enlightenment; and founded the Survival Research Foundation in 1971.

In addition to her many popular books on parapsychology she also lectured on the subject and has operated as a psychic and channeled one book from William James. She is herself psychic, as related in her book Confessions of a Psychic (Macmillan, 1971). Toward the end of her life, she also had a religious awakening and renounced some of her previous psychic activity.

Sources:

Smith, Susy. The Book of James. New York: Putnam, 1974. ——. Confessions of a Psychic. New York: Macmillan, 1971. ——. The Conversion of a Psychic. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1978.

——. The Enigma of Out-of-the-Body Travel. New York: Helix Press, 1965.

——. ESP. New York: Pyramid Books, 1962.

——. ESP for the Millions. Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1965.

——. Haunted Houses for the Millions. Los Angeles: Sher-bourne Press, 1967.

——. The Mediumship of Mrs. Leonard. New Hyde Park, N.Y.: University Books, 1964.

——. More ESP for the Millions. Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1969.

——. Reincarnation. N.p., 1969.

——. A Supernatural Primer for the Millions. Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1966.

——. Today's Witches. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1970.