A Man Named Smith: The Novels and Screen Legacy of Thorne Smith - Paperbackby Anthony Slide (Author) Thorne Smith is a unique figure in American literature, one who thrived during prohibition creating comic novels that ridiculed the morality of the times and involved extensive drinking, nudity, frivolity, and general debauchery. A Man Named Smith: The Novels and Screen Legacy of Thorne Smith is the first book length study of Thorne Smith's work. It provides background information on his life and early death, discusses all of