Lee’s new book, Mrs. Darcy Meets the Blue-Eyed Stranger, will be published in March, 2010 by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. It is a collection of new and selected stories.

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

  • North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame, 2009

  • Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award for On Agate Hill, 2007

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

  • Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York, 1999

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

  • Robert Penn Warren Prize for Fiction, 1991

  • Robert Penn Warren Prize for Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, 1991

  • Lyndhurst Grant, 1990-92

  • Weatherford Award for Appalachian Literature, 1988

  • North Carolina Award for Literature, 1984

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

  • O. Henry Awards, 1979 and 1981