LEE SMITH

"Reading Lee Smith is like coming home again, to find everything as you remembered."

— The Washington Post

Born in the small coal-mining town of Grundy, Virginia, Lee Smith began writing stories at the age of nine and selling them for a nickel apiece. Since then, she has written seventeen works of fiction, including FAIR AND TENDER LADIES, ORAL HISTORY, GUESTS ON EARTH, and most recently, BLUE MARLIN. She has received many awards, including the North Carolina Award for Literature and an Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; her novel THE LAST GIRLS was a New York Times bestseller, as well as winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. Her next novel SILVER ALERT is forthcoming from Algonquin Press in April 2023. She lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina, with her husband, the writer Hal Crowther.

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