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Lee Smith


Born
in Grundy, Virginia, The United States
November 01, 1944

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Historical Fiction

Influences
William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Virginia Woolf ...more


Growing up in the Appalachian mountains of southwestern Virginia, nine-year-old Lee Smith was already writing--and selling, for a nickel apiece--stories about her neighbors in the coal boomtown of Grundy and the nearby isolated "hollers." Since 1968, she has published eleven novels, as well as three collections of short stories, and has received many writing awards.

The sense of place infusing her novels reveals her insight into and empathy for the people and culture of Appalachia. Lee Smith was born in 1944 in Grundy, Virginia, a small coal-mining town in the Blue Ridge Mountains, not 10 miles from the Kentucky border. The Smith home sat on Main Street, and the Levisa River ran just behind it. Her mother, Virginia, was a college graduate wh ...more

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“And are we not all “mere guests” upon this whirling earth?”
― Lee Smith, Guests on Earth
tags: life-philosophy
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“What I didn't understand, all those years when I was waiting for my life to start, was that it had already started. I was already living it! Those were the most important years, and I didn't even know it.”
― Lee Smith
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“But I would do it all again, every bit of it, I would lose him again just to have him again for an hour, for a minute, for even a second. I would do it all again just to see his face.”
― Lee Smith, On Agate Hill
tags: eternal-love, love-after-death, lovers-sadness, molly-n-jacky, on-agate-hill
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