Lee Smith at Next FOL Lecture, Monday Jan 27th

Lee Smith’s published work includes 14 novels and four collections of short stories, much of it drawing from her roots in the South. Her most recent novel, Guests on Earth, centers on an orphaned girl in a 1930’s southern mental hospital, surrounded by a company of remarkable fellow patients. It has been described as “a mesmerizing novel about a time and place where creativity and passion, theory and medicine, fact and fiction, are luminously intertwined.”

Among Smith’s many awards are the O. Henry Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, the North Carolina Award for Literature, and (for the novel The Last Girls) the Southern Book Critics Circle Award.

The Friends of the Key West Library weekly lecture series is free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first come, first served basis. This year’s lectures are every Monday, ending on March 17. Next lecturer is journalist/humorist Hal Crowther, February 3. FOL’s newsletter, including a list of future lecturers, is located at http://friendsofthekeywestlibrary.org.