Lee Smith
Lee Smith is a North Carolina novelist who has written with warmth and comedy about Appalachian women's lives for more than fifty years. Oral History and Fair and Tender Ladies are her most celebrated works.
Works
- Oral HistoryInterconnected voices reveal secrets of a West Virginia family across generations
- Fair and Tender LadiesWoman's letter chronicle of love, betrayal, and survival in rural mountain life
- Black Mountain BreakdownWoman's mental breakdown and recovery in rural Appalachia and psychiatric care
- The Last GirlsWomen's friendship trip down the Mississippi River reunites them with their pasts
- On Agate HillOrphan girl's nineteenth-century coming-of-age in a North Carolina plantation household