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

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

 

 

 

 

Lee Smith has published 12 novels and four collections of short stories. She is a recipient of the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the North Carolina Award for Literature, and a Southern Book Critics Circle Award.

In 2010, she published a collection of new and selected stories named Mrs. Darcy and the Blue Eyed Stranger and also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the State Library of Virginia. Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger is now available in paperback.