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Lee Smith

Lee Smith is an American writer known for her Southern gothic fiction. While residing in the Appalachian Mountains of Southwestern Virginia, she began crafting stories and selling them for a nickel each. Smith has received several accolades, including the O. Henry Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, and the North Carolina Award for Literature. She published her first novel, Black Mountain Breakdown, in 1980. Below is a list of Lee Smith’s books in the order of their original release.

Lee Smith became a published novelist in 1969 with the novel Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed. Below is a list of Lee Smith's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed (1969) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Fancy Strut (1973) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Black Mountain Breakdown (1980) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Oral History (1983) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Family Linen (1985) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Fair and Tender Ladies (1988) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Devil's Dream (1992) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Saving Grace (1995) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Last Girls (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
On Agate Hill (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Guests on Earth (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Silver Alert (2023) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Christmas Letters (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Blue Marlin (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Short Story Collections Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Cakewalk (1981) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Me and My Baby View the Eclipse (1990) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
News of the Spirit (1997) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Conversations with Lee Smith (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Dimestore: A Writer's Life (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of New Stories From The South Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
New Stories from the South (By: Shannon Ravenel) (1988) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
New Stories from the South 1992 (By: Shannon Ravenel) (1992) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
New Stories from the South 1993 (By: Shannon Ravenel) (1993) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
New Stories from the South 1994 (By: Shannon Ravenel) (1994) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
New Stories from the South 1995 (By: Shannon Ravenel) (1995) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
New Stories from the South 1996 (By: Shannon Ravenel) (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
New Stories from the South 1997 (By: Robert Olen Butler) (1997) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
New Stories from the South 1998 (By: Padgett Powell) (1998) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
New Stories from the South 1999 (By: Tony Earley) (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
New Stories from the South 2000 (By: Ellen Douglas) (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
New Stories from the South 2001 (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
New Stories from the South 2003 (By: Shannon Ravenel) (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
New Stories from the South 2004 (By: Allan Gurganus) (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
New Stories from the South, 2005 (By: Jill McCorkle) (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Best of the South: From the Second Decade of New Stories from the South (By: Shannon Ravenel) (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
New Stories from the South 2006 (By: Allan Gurganus,Kathy Pories) (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
New Stories from the South 2007 (By: Allan Gurganus) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
New Stories from the South 2008 (By: Z.Z. Packer) (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
New Stories from the South 2009 (By: Madison Smartt Bell) (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
New Stories from the South 2010 (By: Amy Hempel) (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Growing Up in the South (1991) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Downhome (1995) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Eudora Welty: Writers' Reflections Upon First Reading Welty (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
A Very Southern Christmas: Holiday Stories from the South's Best Writers (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Casual Reader (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

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