Naomi Stevens Smith was born in 1914. Her parents had left the Mormon colonies in Chihuahua, Mexico during the time of Pancho Villa, so she was born in El Paso, Texas, as a citizen of the United States.
As the eldest of eleven children, and eventually the mother of eight, the demand for stories began early in her life. Over the years she has printed special stories for the family, but Something to Give is her first published work.
Naomi spent much of her childhood and youth in Colonia Juarez, Mexico, and in the little mountain town of Colonia Chuichupa. She graduated from the Juarez Stake Academy and was among the first group of LDS missionaries called to serve in Mexico when that country was reopened for missionary work after being closed to proselyting by the government for some twenty years.
She later attended Brigham Young University, where she met and married Don Hyrum Smith in 1940. They enjoyed twenty-five happy years together with their children before an accidental death took him in 1965.
Naomi taught school in Salt Lake City's Granite School District for fifteen years, and then filled a Spanish-speaking mission for the LDS Church to Mexico and Arcadia, California.
At present she resides in Salt Lake City and enjoys teaching an English class to Spanish-speaking friends, gardening, community and church service. She also enjoys being with her large and loving family, which includes 45 grandchildren and many great-grandchildren, with more arriving all the time.
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