Robert Paul Smith was born in Brooklyn, grew up in Mount Vernon, NY, and graduated from Columbia College in 1936.
He worked as a writer for CBS Radio and wrote four novels: So It Doesn't Whistle (1946) (1941, according to Avon Publishing Co., Inc., reprint edition ... Plus Blood in Their Veins copyright 1952); The Journey, (1943); Because of My Love (1946); The Time and the Place (1951).
The Tender Trap, a play by Smith and Dobie Gillis creator Max Shulman, opened in 1954 with Robert Preston in the leading role.
It gives step-by-step directions on how to: play mumbly-peg; build a spool tank; make polly-noses; construct an indoor boomerang, etc.
Nothing (1957) Translations from the English (1958) Crank: A Book of Lamentations, Exhortations, Mixed Memories and Desires, All Hard Or Chewy Centers, No Creams(1962) How to Grow Up in One Piece (1963) Got to Stop Draggin’ that Little Red Wagon Around (1969) Robert Paul Smith’s Lost & Found (1973) Jack Mack, illus.
Allan E. Cober (1965) How To Do Nothing With No One All Alone By Yourself, illus Elinor Goulding Smith (1958) Republished by Tin House Books (2010) So It Doesn't Whistle (1941) The Journey (1943) Because of My Love (1946) The Time and the Place (1952) Where He Went: Three Novels (1958) The Tender Trap, by Max Shulman and Robert Paul Smith (first Broadway performance, 1954; Random House edition, 1955) The Man with the Gold-headed Cane (1943) …and Another Thing (1959)