Lee Smith is an author from a small coal mining town in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia near my hometown. She is a retired professor of English from North Carolina State University. She has won O'Henry Awards for short stories and has been on the New York Times Best Seller List numerous times. Her narritive form uses the oldtime Appalachian dialect in many of her novels. I loved her earlier work like Black Mountain Breakdown , Fair and Tender Ladies. The Devil's Dream and Oral History are really good too. Ohh, I love all of her work and consider her a friend. She has been referred to as a modern day Faulkner and Carson McCullers.
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