Black Mountain Breakdown (34 page)

Lee Smith is the author of fifteen works of fiction, including
Oral History
,
Fair and Tender Ladies
, and her recent
Mrs. Darcy and the
Blue-
Eyed Stranger
. She has received many awards, including the North Carolina Award for Literature and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; her novel
The Last Girls
was a
New York Times
bestseller as well as winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in North Carolina.