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 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.

Events and Tour Dates

June 2nd, 2011
A joint event with author Roy Blount
7:30 PM
Quail Ridge Books and Music
3522 Wade Ave
Raleigh, NC  27607
Contact: Rene Martin
rene.martin@quailridgebooks.com
919-828-7912

June 8th, 2011
7:00 PM
Flyleaf Books
752 MLK Jr. Blvd.
Chapel Hill, NC  27514
Contact: Jamie Fiocco
jamie@flyleafbooks.com
919-942-7936

June 9th, 2011
4:00 PM
The Country Bookshop
130 Northwest Broad Street
Southern Pines, NC  28387
Contact: Kimberly Daniels
kdaniels@thecountrybookshop.biz
920-692-3211

June 10th, 2011
7:00 PM
Regulator Bookshop
720 Ninth Street
Durham, NC  27705
Contact: Tom Campbell
regulatorbookshop@gmail.com
919-286-2700

June 11, 2011 (2 events)
10:00 AM
Celebrate the paperback release of
Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger
with Coffee and Conversation with Lee Smith
The Depot
246 S. Nash Street
Hillsborough, NC  27278
Sponsored by: Purple Crow Books
Contact: Sharon Wheeler: Purple Crow Books
919-732-1711
OR
Meleah Gabhart: The Depot
919-643-3768

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2:00 PM
McIntyre’s Books
220 Market Street
Fearrington Village
Pittsboro, NC  27312
Contact: Keebe Fitch
keebe@fearrington.com
919-542-3030

June 17 – 18, 2011
Appalachian Heritage Writers Symposium
Southwest Virginia Community College
King Community Center
Richlands, VA
June 17th: 3:15 – 5:45:  Appalachian Arts Center reception and book signing
http://appheritagewriterssym.com
Contact:  Pattie Hale:  pattie.hale@sw.edu

August 1 – 5, 2011
Appalachian Writers Workshop
Two sessions on “Making the Past Come Alive” on
Wednesday and Thursday 2:45 – 4:00 pm
and an evening reading at 7:30 PM on August 3rd
Hindman Settlement School
Hindman, Kentucky
To register: www.HindmanSettlement.org

November 17, 2011
“Standing Ground” Convocation speech at Berea College
Phelps Stokes Auditorium
More detail to come
www.berea.edu

December 1, 2011
Performing with “Black Angels”
Jill McCorkle, Matraca Berg, and Marshall Chapman
Nashville, TN
Details to come

December 7, 2011
Lecture in New York City
Details to come

December 8, 2011
The Women’s Center’s Tea with Lee and Margaret Maron
Fosters Market
Chapel Hill, NC
4:30 – 6:30 pm
Contact: www.womenspace.org for information and ticket orders

2012 Events

January 5, 2012
Womens Singing Circle “Twelfth Night” Program
St Matthews Episcopal Church
Hillsborough, NC
St. Matthews Episcopal Church Women's Singing Circle

January 8 – 14, 2012
Teaching fiction workshop for
Key West Literary Seminars
Key West, FL
www.KWLS.org

 

January 26, 2012
Heritage Program Luncheon Talk “Bringing the Past to Life”
Johnston County Historical Association
Contact: Mary Nell Ferguson
mnferguson@nc.rr.com

March 24, 2012
Performing with “Black Angels”
Virginia Festival of the Book
Charlottesville, VA
More info to come

April 11, 2012
Keynote speaker at Converse College
Spartanburg, SC
Converse Conference of Southern Culture
“High Culture, Low Culture, Southern Culture”