Key West Friends of the Library Speaker Series Hosts Author Lee Smith

 Monday, January 29, the Key West Friends of the Library will welcome author Lee Smith to the podium at the Key West Theater, 512 Eaton St. Admission is free. Her talk begins promptly at 6:00 p.m. Seating starts at 5:30 on a first-come, first-served basis.

Lee Smith grew up in the Appalachian mountains of southwestern Virginia and was already writing by age 9. Since 1968, she has published eleven novels, three collections of short stories, and has received many writing awards.

Her novels include Fair and Tender Ladies, Me and My Baby View the Eclipse, and Saving Grace. Her second book of short stories, The Devil’s Dream, was a generational saga about a family of country musicians. Her novel The Last Girls was a New York Times bestseller, inspired by an actual raft trip she made down the Mississippi River in 1966. 

With Jill McCorkle, Ms. Smith co-wrote the musical Good Ol’ Girls , which played a limited engagement off-Broadway in 2010, and included songs by Nashville hit-makers Matraca Berg and Marshall Chapman.  Her memoir Dimestore: A Writer’s Life is her first work of nonfiction. In it she tells her own story, from growing up in the small coal-mining town of Grundy, Virginia to becoming a writer and raising her family in North Carolina.

More Magazine said: “Lee Smith’s memoir, Dimestore, is both a gorgeous remembrance of an Appalachian girlhood and an engrossing look at the makings of a writer.”

According to The New York Times Book Review “Smith delivers a memoir that shines with a bright spirit, a generous heart and an entertaining knack for celebrating absurdity.”

Lee Smith lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina with her husband, the writer Hal Crowther.

For more information, go to http://friendsofthekeywestlibrary.org and click on lecture series.

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