Order of Lee Smith Books

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:

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed

(1969)

Fancy Strut

(1973)

Black Mountain Breakdown

(1980)

Oral History

(1983)

Family Linen

(1985)

Fair and Tender Ladies

(1988)

The Devil’s Dream

(1992)

Saving Grace

(1995)

The Last Girls

(2002)

On Agate Hill

(2006)

Guests on Earth

(2013)

Silver Alert

(2023)

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

The Christmas Letters

(1996)

Blue Marlin

(2020)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Cakewalk

(1981)

Me and My Baby View the Eclipse

(1990)

News of the Spirit

(1997)

Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger

(2010)

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Conversations with Lee Smith

(2012)

Dimestore: A Writer’s Life

(2016)

Publication Order of New Stories From The South Books

New Stories from the South (By: Shannon Ravenel)

(1988)

New Stories from the South 1992 (By: Shannon Ravenel)

(1992)

New Stories from the South 1993 (By: Shannon Ravenel)

(1993)

New Stories from the South 1994 (By: Shannon Ravenel)

(1994)

New Stories from the South 1995 (By: Shannon Ravenel)

(1995)

New Stories from the South 1996 (By: Shannon Ravenel)

(1996)

New Stories from the South 1997 (By: Robert Olen Butler)

(1997)

New Stories from the South 1998 (By: Padgett Powell)

(1998)

New Stories from the South 1999 (By: Tony Earley)

(1999)

New Stories from the South 2000 (By: Ellen Douglas)

(2000)

New Stories from the South 2001

(2001)

New Stories from the South 2003 (By: Roy Blount Jr.)

(2003)

New Stories from the South 2004 (By: Allan Gurganus)

(2004)

New Stories from the South, 2005 (By: Jill McCorkle)

(2005)

Best of the South: From the Second Decade of New Stories from the South (By: Shannon Ravenel)

(2005)

New Stories from the South 2006 (By: Allan Gurganus,Kathy Pories)

(2006)

New Stories from the South 2007 (By: Allan Gurganus)

(2007)

New Stories from the South 2008 (By: Z.Z. Packer)

(2008)

New Stories from the South 2009 (By: Madison Smartt Bell)

(2009)

New Stories from the South 2010 (By: )

(2010)

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Publication Order of Anthologies

Growing Up in the South

(1991)

Downhome

(1995)

Out of the Mold

(1997)

Eudora Welty: Writers’ Reflections Upon First Reading Welty

(1999)

The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction

(1999)

A Very Southern Christmas: Holiday Stories from the South’s Best Writers

(2003)

The Casual Reader

(2014)

Note: The anthology Tributes was edited with Martine Bellen and Bradford Morrow.