Appalachian Portraits

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Lee Smith
University Press of Mississippi, 1993 - Biography & Autobiography - 22 pages

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Section 2
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Section 3
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About the author (1993)

Lee Smith is a novelist, short story writer, and educator. She was born in 1944 in Grundy, Virginia. Smith attended Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia. In her senior year at Hollins, Smith entered a Book-of-the-Month Club contest, submitting a draft of a novel called The Last Day the Dog Bushes Bloomed. The book, one of 12 entries to receive a fellowship, was published in 1968. Smith wrote reviews for local papers and continued to write short stories. Her first collection of short stories, Cakewalk, was published in 1981. Smith taught at North Carolina State University. Her novel, Oral History, published in 1983, was a Book-of-the-Month Club featured selection. She has received two O. Henry Awards, the Robert Penn Warren Prize for Fiction, the North Carolina Award for Fiction, the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Award, and the Academy Award in Literature presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Bibliographic information

TitleAppalachian Portraits
Author and artist series
EditorLee Smith
Photographs byShelby Lee Adams, Lee Smith
author of text accompanying photosLee Smith
ContributorLee Smith
Editionillustrated
PublisherUniversity Press of Mississippi, 1993
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedSep 22, 2008
ISBN0878056467, 9780878056460
Length22 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / General
History / United States / State & Local / General
Photography / Individual Photographers / General
Social Science / Customs & Traditions
  
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