Lee Smith

Author

1944 –

31

Who is Lee Smith?

Lee Smith is an American fiction author who typically incorporates much of her home roots in the Southeastern United States in her works of literature. She has received many writing awards, such as the O. Henry Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, the North Carolina Award for Literature, and, in April 2013, was the first recipient of Mercer University's Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature. Her novel The Last Girls was listed on the New York Times bestseller's list and won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. Mrs Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger, a collection of new and selected stories was published in 2010.

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Born
Nov 1, 1944
Grundy
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Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Hollins University
Lived in
  • North Carolina

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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