Lee Smith has published 11 novels and three collections of short stories.  She is a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award recipient, and winner of the 1991 Fellowship of Southern Writers’ Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction.  In 1999, Smith received the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  Her latest novels are The Last Girls, winner of the 2002 Southern Book Critics Circle Award, and On Agate Hill.