Lee Smith

Lee Smith is the author of several novels, including Oral History, Saving Grace, The Devil's Dream, Fair and Tender Ladies, and On Agate Hill, as well as three collections of short stories. Her novel The Last Girls was a New York Times bestseller as well as a winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. A retired professor of English at North Carolina State University, Lee received an Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999.