Lee Smith

Lee Smith is an American fiction writer whose novels often draw on her background in the American South. Her books include Fair and Tender Ladies, Family Linen, On Agate Hill, and Black Mountain Breakdown, which follows its heroine from high school into adulthood. Her novel The Last Girls reached the New York Times bestseller list and won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award, and she has received the O. Henry Award and the North Carolina Award for Literature. She was born in 1944.