Order of Lee Smith Books
Lee Smith is an American author of Southern gothic fiction. Lee was writing stories while living in the Appalachian Mountains in Southwestern Virginia and selling them for a nickel each. Lee has won the O. Henry Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction and the North Carolina Award for Literature.
Lee Smith became a published author in 1980 with the novel Black Mountain Breakdown. Below is a list of Lee Smith’s books in order of when they were originally released:
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Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fancy Strut | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Black Mountain Breakdown | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Oral History | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Family Linen | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fair and Tender Ladies | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Devil's Dream | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Saving Grace | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Last Girls | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| On Agate Hill | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Guests on Earth | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Silver Alert | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| The Christmas Letters | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Blue Marlin | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Cakewalk | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Me and My Baby View the Eclipse | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| News of the Spirit | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Conversations with Lee Smith | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dimestore: A Writer's Life | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of New Stories From The South Books
| New Stories from the South | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| New Stories from the South 1992 | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| New Stories from the South 1993 | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| New Stories from the South 1994 | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| New Stories from the South 1995 | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| New Stories from the South 1996 | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| New Stories from the South 1997 | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| New Stories from the South 1998 | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| New Stories from the South 1999 | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| New Stories from the South 2000 | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| New Stories from the South 2001 | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| New Stories from the South 2002 | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| New Stories from the South 2003 | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| New Stories from the South 2004 | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| New Stories from the South, 2005 | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Best of the South: From the Second Decade of New Stories from the South | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| New Stories from the South 2006 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| New Stories from the South 2007 | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| New Stories from the South 2008 | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| New Stories from the South 2009 | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| New Stories from the South 2010 | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Growing Up in the South | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Downhome | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Out of the Mold | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Eudora Welty: Writers' Reflections Upon First Reading Welty | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Very Southern Christmas: Holiday Stories from the South's Best Writers | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Casual Reader | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Note: The anthology Tributes was edited with Martine Bellen and Bradford Morrow.
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The anecdote about selling stories for a nickel is from the past.