She submitted an early draft of a coming-of-age novel to a Book-of-the-Month Club contest and was awarded one of twelve fellowships. It was in 1966, during her senior year at Hollins, that Smith's literary career began to take off. She and fellow student Annie Dillard (the well-known essayist and novelist) became go-go dancers for an all-girl rock band, the Virginia Woolfs. Catherine's School in Richmond, Virginia, Smith enrolled at Hollins College in Roanoke. 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."Īfter spending her last two years of high school at St. Her mother, Virginia, was a college graduate who had come to Grundy to teach school. The Smith home sat on Main Street, and the Levisa Fork River ran just behind it. Lee Smith was born in 1944 in Grundy, Virginia, a small coal-mining town in the Appalachian Mountains, less than 10 miles from the Kentucky border. Her recent book The Last Girls was listed on the New York Times bestseller's list. Henry award and the Academy Award For Literature. She has received many writing awards, such as the O. Lee Smith is an American fiction author who typically incorporates much of her home roots in the Southeastern United States in her works of literature. Currently-lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
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