Lee’s new paperback, Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger, will be published on May 30, 2011 -- take it to the beach!

Click to hear Lee read a portion of The Last Girls.

 

 

 

 

Lee Smith has published 12 novels and four collections of short stories. She is a recipient of the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the North Carolina Award for Literature, and a Southern Book Critics Circle Award.

In 2010, she published a collection of new and selected stories named Mrs. Darcy and the Blue Eyed Stranger and also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the State Library of Virginia. On May 30, 2011 Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger will be published in paperback.