Lee’s new novel, Guests on Earth will be published in October, 2013 by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.

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

February 21, 2013
University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
River City Writers Series
6:00 pm reception
6:30 reading and talk: "A Life in Books" - a discussion of the relation between real life and fiction, and how it changes over time... and where do all those characters come from, anyway?
More information can be found at http://www.memphis.edu/moch/events.htm

April 13, 2013
3pm Reading at Mercer College, Macon, Ga.
Lee will receive the 2013 Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature

April 18, 2013
Stories and Songs from "Good Ol' Girls" featuring writers Matraca Berg, Marshall Chapman, Jill McCorkle, and Lee Smith
Live Onstage at the Tivoli Theater, Chattanooga, TN
5:30 pm
Southern Writers Festival