Steven C. Smith is an award-winning author, journalist, and television producer who has written extensively about film, music, and television. Credited primarily for classical Liner Notes, he has worked as a producer for HBO Entertainment News and NBC's Weekend Today; has been a writer/producer on the A&E series Biography; and is supervising producer of the AMC series Backstory. He is also the author of Film Composers (1991), A Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann (1991) and Music by Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood's Most Influential Composer (2020).