Horane Smith is a Jamaican-born Canadian-based writer, who  was born less than a mile from Lover's Leap in the parish of St. Elizabeth. He  has been a journalist for more than twenty years, having worked in just about  all aspects of newspaper, radio, and television. He was Senior News  Editor/Producer/Reporter for JBC-TV in Kingston, Jamaica up to the time of his  departure in 1990. He also acted briefly as an Assistant Director of Television  News. Since then, he has been mainly writing commentaries for a number of  newspapers and magazines and has written several novels over that period.  Lover's Leap is the first to be published. Mr. Smith was awarded the 1981 Jack  Anderson Memorial Scholarship for Journalism to study Mass Communication at the  University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.