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
Lee's new book, 