Scott Bechtel Smith (born July 13, 1965) is an American author and screenwriter.

Both were adapted into films – A Simple Plan (1998) and The Ruins (2008), respectively – based on Smith's own screenplays.

Smith was born in Summit, New Jersey in 1965 and moved to Toledo, Ohio as a child.

He told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reviewer Regis Behe that, as a child, he read his father's "castoffs," the novels of Clive Cussler and Jack Higgins.

[3] A TV series adaptation of William Gibson's The Peripheral was commissioned in 2018 by Amazon,[4] with Smith as writer.