Lee's new book, On Agate Hill available NOW!

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For a list of Lee Smith's recommended books, click here.

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

Click Here for information on Barbara Bates Smith's new one-woman show On Agate Hill. Read the review or check out her schedule.

Awards

  • The Last Girls won a Southern Book Critics Circle Award for 2002

  • Recent winner of Academy Award in Literature
    presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in New York, May 19, 1999

  • Lila Wallace / Reader's Digest Award, 1995-1997

  • Robert Penn Warren Prize for Fiction, 1991

  • Lyndhurst Grant, 1990-92

  • Weatherford Award for Appalachian Literature, 1988

  • North Carolina Award for Fiction, 1984

  • Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Oral History, 1983 and Fair and Tender Ladies, 1989

  • O. Henry Awards, 1979 and 1981