![]() ![]() ![]() 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." After spending her last two years of high school at St. Her father, Ernest, was the owner and operator of a Ben Franklin store in Grundy. Her mother, Gig, was a college graduate who taught school. The Smith home sat on Main Street, and the Levisa Fork River ran just behind it. 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 novel The Last Girls was listed on the New York Times bestseller's list and won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. ![]() Henry Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, and the North Carolina Award for Literature. ![]() She has received many writing awards, such as the O. Lee Smith (born November 1, 1944) is an American fiction writer who often incorporates her background from the American South in her works. For other people named Lee Smith, see Lee Smith (disambiguation). ![]()
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