Lee Smith

Lee Smith is an acclaimed American fiction writer born in 1944 in Grundy, Virginia, known for incorporating her Appalachian and Southern roots into her novels and short stories. She has received numerous awards, including the O. Henry Award and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, and is celebrated for works like 'The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed' and 'The Last Girls'.

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