Lee Smith (1) (1944–)
Auteur de The Last Girls
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Lee Smith, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Lee Smith
Oeuvres associées
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Contributeur — 558 exemplaires
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Contributeur — 511 exemplaires
Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature (1991) — Contributeur — 141 exemplaires
The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction (1993) — Contributeur — 90 exemplaires
Best of the South: From Ten Years of New Stories from the South (1996) — Contributeur — 49 exemplaires
Best of the South: From the Second Decade of New Stories from the South (2005) — Contributeur — 47 exemplaires
A Very Southern Christmas: Holiday Stories from the South’s Best Writers (2003) — Contributeur — 34 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Smith, Lee
- Autres noms
- Smith, Lee Marshall
- Date de naissance
- 1944-11-01
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Grundy, Virginia, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Hillsborough, North Carolina, USA
Grundy, Virginia, USA (birth)
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - Études
- Hollins College (BA|1966)
- Professions
- novelist
- Relations
- Dillard, Annie (friend)
Crowther, Hal (husband) - Organisations
- Fellowship of Southern Writers
The Virginia Woolfs - Prix et distinctions
- Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction (1991)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1999)
John Dos Passos Prize (1987)
Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature (2013)
O. Henry Award (1978, 1980)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Page Turners (1)
Female Author (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 23
- Aussi par
- 24
- Membres
- 6,406
- Popularité
- #3,844
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 242
- ISBN
- 256
- Langues
- 7
- Favoris
- 23
[Audiobook note: The narrator, Kate Forbes, absolutely nails the mountain accent. No caricature; no Deep South drawl. She has the real voice. And she employs it so well, aging the voice as the character grows from adolescent to aged woman.]