Black Mountain Breakdown

%xmlchars; ]> mc00203 Guide to the Lee Marshall Smith Papers, 1956-2006 Processed by: Caroline Weaver;machine-readable finding aid created by: Steven Mandeville-Gamble North Carolina State University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center 2005 Machine-readable finding aid derived from xml authoring program Finding aid written in English. 2006 December Updated because of additions by Linda Sellars 2007 March Updated because of additions by Dani Nation Guide to the Lee Marshall Smith Papers, 1956-2006 MC 203 North Carolina State University Libraries Special Collections Research Center Contact Information: &ncsuaddr; Processed by Caroline Weaver, 1995-1997 Encoded by Steven Mandeville-Gamble, 2005 December Updated by Dani Nation, 2007 March Descriptive Summary North Carolina State University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center Smith, Lee, 1944- Lee Marshall Smith Papers, 1956-2006 MC 203 14.75 27 archival boxes, 1 card box, 2 flat files This collection documents Lee Marshall Smith's career as a reporter, film critic, newspaper editor, educator and novelist. Also documented are some of Smith's numerous awards and honors, including the Robert Penn Warren Fiction Prize in 1991 and the North Carolina Award for Fiction in 1984. Subject files contain biographical information, including a vita, documentation from her time as Writer-In-Residence at Hollins College, and correspondence with her publishers (Harper and Row, 1968-1973). The Writings series includes extensive drafts of Smith's writings, including typescripts, manuscripts, reproductions, and handwritten notes. Among Smith's published novels are Black Mountain Breakdown (1981), Oral History (1983) , Fair and Tender Ladies (1988), The Devil's Dream (1992), Saving Grace (1995), and The Last Girls (2002). Her short stories include "Mom (Life As We Knew It)", "The French Revolution, A Love Story", "Bob, A Dog", "Me and My Baby View the Eclipse" (with accompanying artwork) and "Camera Obscura". The collection also contains plays adapted from Smith's novels and short stories. A Reviews series includes reviews and critical essays about Smith's work from 1968 to the present. The Audiovisual Materials series includes sound tapes (Lee Smith reading from books and short stories, radio interviews, etc.), a compact disc, and VHS tapes. A popular author of novels and short stories, Lee Smith earned a B.A. in English from Hollins College in 1967. Immediately after college she worked as a reporter for the Richmond News Leader and the Tuscaloosa News. Smith was an English teacher at Harpeth Hall School in Nashville, 1971-1975, and at the Carolina Friends School in North Carolina, 1975-1977. She taught creative writing at Duke University in 1977 and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1978-1981. From 1979 to 1980 she was the director of a summer writing workshop for the University of Virginia. In 1981, she came to North Carolina State University, where she taught for 19 years. For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Special Collections Research Center Reference Staff. English Information for Users Restrictions to Access

This collection is open for research; access requires at least 24 hours advance notice.

Use of audiovisual material may require production of listening or viewing copies.

Acquisitions Information

Gift of Lee Smith, 1991-2007.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Lee Marshall Smith Papers, MC 203, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC

Processed by Caroline Weaver, 1995-1997

Encoded by Steven Mandeville-Gamble, 2005 December

Updated by Dani Nation, March 2007

Biographical Note

Lee Marshall Smith was born in Grundy, Virginia. As a college student, she studied in France during her junior year and interned at the Richmond News Leader with chief editorial writer James J. Kilpatrick. Ms. Smith was awarded a Book-of-the Month Club Writing Fellowship in June 1967, immediately following her graduation from Hollins College with a B.A. in English. She continued her writing career as a reporter for the Tuscaloosa News in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 1968-1969 and then became the feature writer, film critic, and editor of the newspaper's Sunday magazine. She switched from journalism to teaching English at Harpeth Hall School in Nashville, Tennessee, 1971-1974, and the Carolina Friends School in Durham, North Carolina, 1975-1977. During this period Ms. Smith was married and raised two boys.

Lee Smith pursued her writing career and was selected as the writer-in-residence at Hollins College during the spring semester of 1976. She continued to teach creative writing as an instructor at Duke University in 1977, a lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1978-1981, and the director of a summer writing workshop for the University of Virginia, 1979-1980. In 1981 she took a position at North Carolina State University, where she taught for 19 years. Ms. Smith has given numerous lectures in addition to her extended visits to various schools and conferences teaching writing and conducting workshops. She has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards including two O. Henry Awards, the John Dos Passos Award, the Robert Penn Warren Fiction Prize, and the North Carolina Award for Fiction in 1984. As of 1997, she had published 15 books:

The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed, 1968

Something in the Wind, 1971

Fancy Strut, 1973

Black Mountain Breakdown, 1981

Cakewalk, 1981

Oral History, 1983

Family Linen, 1985

Fair and Tender Ladies, 1988

Bob, A Dog, 1988

Me and My Baby View the Eclipse, 1990

The Devil's Dream, 1992

We Don't Love with Our Teeth, 1994

Saving Grace, 1995

The Christmas Letters: A Novella, 1996

News of the Spirit, 1997

In 2002, Smith published The Last Girls, which was inspired by an actual raft trip she made down the Mississippi River with other Hollins girls in 1966. On Agate Hill, an historical novel set in piedmont North Carolina during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, was published in 2006.

Scope and Content Note

The papers of Lee Marshall Smith are divided into eleven series. This collection documents Lee Smith's career as a reporter, film critic, newspaper editor, educator, and novelist. The collection primarily documents Smith's professional endeavors and contains limited personal materials. Also documented are Smith's numerous awards and honors, including the North Carolina Award for Literature (1984), the Lyndhurst Prize (1990-1992), the Robert Penn Warren Fiction Prize, and her promotion to professor at North Carolina State University in 1990. Subject files contain biographical information, including a vita and documentation from her time as Writer-In-Residence at Hollins College. Correspondence chiefly contains letters to and from Smith's publishers (Harper and Row, 1968-1973). Interviews and Articles are predominantly news clippings of interviews with Smith and articles about her. The Lectures, Readings, Speeches, Book Signings series includes programs, news clippings and other evidence of Smith's professional activities. The Miscellaneous series contains notes for stories, information about other writers, and various memorabilia.

The bulk of the collection is contained in the Writings series which consists of five subseries, including Reviews by Lee Smith, Drafts of Novels, Short Stories, Miscellaneous Writing, and Essays. The series documents Smith's writing and the process of creating a novel. It contains extensive drafts of Smith's writings, including typescripts, manuscripts, reproductions, and handwritten notes. Among the short stories are "Mom (Life As We Knew It)", "The French Revolution, A Love Story", "Bob, A Dog", "Me and My Baby View the Eclipse" (with accompanying artwork) and "Camera Obscura". The collection also contains plays adapted from Smith's novels and short stories. A Reviews series includes reviews and critical essays about Smith's work from 1968 to the present. The Audiovisual Materials series includes sound tapes (Lee Smith reading from books and short stories, radio interviews, etc.), a compact disc, and VHS tapes.

Collection Arrangement

Collection is arranged into series:

1. Subject Files, 1962-1987

2. Correspondence, 1968-2006

3. Honors and Awards, 1967-2001

4. Interviews and Articles, 1968-2003

5. Lectures, Speeches, Readings, Book Signings, 1981-2003

6. Miscellaneous, 1970, undated

7. Photographs, 1964, 1990-2000, undated

8. Writings, 1956-2003

9. Plays Adapted from Novels and Short Stories, 1984-1998

10. Reviews, 1968-2002

11. Audiovisual Materials, 1988-1994

Online Catalog Terms

The following terms have been used to index the guide to the collection in the NCSU Library's online catalog.

Individuals Smith, Lee, 1944- Smith, Lee, 1944- --Criticism and interpretation. Corporate Entities North Carolina State University--Faculty--History. Topics American fiction--North Carolina--Women authors. American literature--Women authors. Authors, American--20th century--Correspondence. Authors, American--North Carolina--20th century. Novelists, American--20th century. Short stories, American--Women authors. Women authors, American--North Carolina--20th century. Women novelists, American--20th century. Geographic Names North Carolina--Fiction. North Carolina--Intellectual life. Virginia--Fiction. Occupations Authors, American--20th century. Detailed Description of the Collection MC 203 Series 01 Subject Files, 1962-1987, undated 0.2

The Subject Files series consists of biographical information about Smith and various items and clippings that accompanied the manuscripts. The material in this series is scant and relates primarily to Smith's experience at Hollins College and as a reporter for the Tuscaloosa News.

232Anthologies: Michigan Quarterly Review, 1987Accession no. 2007-0376 231Anthologies: The Carolina Quarterly, 1978Accession no. 2007-0376 1Biographical Information, Vita 1Carolina Friends School, 1975 1Coastal Storm - Maryland, Virginia, March 1962 1Grundy, Virginia 233Grundy, Virginia, 1962-1990Accession no. 2007-0376 28Grundy, Virginia, 1962-1990Accession no. 2007-0376

Ornament Removed from Box 23 folder 3

1Hollins College: Miscellaneous 1Hollins College: Raft Trip Down the Mississippi River 1Hollins College: Writer-In-Residence 1Reporter, The Tuscaloosa News MC 203 Series 02 Correspondence, 1968-2006, undated 0.1

This series is limited and covers correspondence, 1968-1973, with Harper and Row, and miscellaneous correspondence in 1981, 1987, 1992, and 2006. For additional correspondence, see Series 8, Writings, which includes letters and notes which accompany manuscript materials.

234Correspondence concerning The Devils Dream, 1992Accession no. 2007-0376 1Correspondence, 1981, 1987, 1992, no date 1Correspondence, Harper and Row, 1968-1973 235Ivy Anne Hughes Baby Announcement, 1999Accession no. 2007-0376 MC 203 Series 03 Honors and Awards, 1967-2001 0.1

The Honors and Awards series documents some of the awards and prizes that Smith has earned as a writer. This series also includes information regarding her graduation from Hollins College.

1Book-of-the-Month Club Writing Fellowship, 1967 June 1Distinguished Scholarly Achievement Award, NCSU, 1991 0ctober 23 1Distinguished Service Award, 1990 April 11 1Fellow, Fellowship of Southern Writers, 1991 April 5 1Hollins Graduation, 1967 May 28 1Lee Smith Festival - Emory and Henry College, 1985 October 10-112 copies 1Lyndhurst Prize, 1990-1992 1NC Award for Literature, 1984 November 15 236Pembroke Magazine Lee Smith Special Issue, 2001Accession no. 2007-0376 1Promotion to Professor, North Carolina State University, 1990 August 16 1Robert Penn Warren Fiction Prize, 1991 April 5 1Southwest Virginia Community College - 1st Cultural Ambassador Award, 1993 September 16 1St. Catherine’s School distinguished alumna, 1975 April 1W.D. Weatherford Award - Berea College, 1989 May 23 MC 203 Series 04 Interviews and Articles, 1968-2003 0.2

The Interviews and Articles series documents Smith's career from her first novel in 1968 to 2003. The series consists of newspaper clippings of articles about and interviews with Lee Smith. Publications range from the Hollins College Bulletin to The New York Times Book Review. The series also contains a book titled Notable North Carolina Women by Jennifer Ravi.

1“A mystical mix of Southern life,” by Lynn Jessup, Greensboro News and Record, 27 September 19872 copies 1“A Southern voice in her own write,” by Ken Ringle, The News and Observer, 9 December 1988 1Ad for Lee Smith’s Oral History, New York Times Book Review, 17 July 1983 1“An Interview with Lee Smith,” by DLB, [circa 1984] 1“An Interview with Lee Smith,” by Tom McKnight, Appalachian Heritage, Spring/Summer 1988 2“Area’s best known author, Lee Smith, honored,” by Charlotte Williamson, Daily Telegraph, 19 September 1993 2Articles removed from Box 23 Folder 7, 1986-2003Accession no. 2007-0376 1“Artists Picture Lee Smith’s Stories,” by Melissa Clement, 26 Sept. 1991 2“Author paints realistic picture of region but not without fight over cultural differences,” by Kathy Sill, Bristol Herald Courier/Virginia-Tennessean, 18 September 1993 2“Author’s hometown a big help,” by J. Sebastian Sinisi, The Denver Post, 9 July 19922 copies 1“Buchanan-Born Author Writes Her Roots,” Bluefield Daily Telegraph, by Maryanne Stevens, 25 January 19812 copies 2“Chapter and Verse,” by Margaret Carlin, Rocky Mountain News, 6 July 1992 1“College News From Around the Quadrangle,” Hollins College Bulletin, January 1971 2311Conversations with Lee Smith by Linda Tate, 2001Accession no. 2007-0376 1“Despite fame, Smith’s roots remain strong,” (part 2 of article) (from a West Virginia newspaper), [circa 1983-84] 1“Down From the Mountain,” by Michael McFee, Spectator, 21 July 19832 copies 1“Fair and Tender Fiction,” by Robert Draper, American Way, 1 February 1989 1“Flight of Fancy,” article about Hollins Professor Richard H. W. Dillard, with quote by Lee Smith (former student) Roanoke Times and World News, 6 September 1987 1“Good writer has gift of the telling detail,” by James J. Kilpatrick, (from a Central Florida Newspaper), [circa 1985-86] 1“Homecoming for Lee Smith ‘An Emotional Experience’,” by Cathy St. Clair, The Grundy Mountaineer, 20 September 1990 1“Homespun-Tales of Appalachia Have Authentic-Sounding Twang,” by Teresa Lazazzera, The Winchester Star, 12 May 1987 1“Hot Off the Presses,” by Susan Toepfer, City Lights, 29 December 1985 1“In her books, Lee Smith goes home again,” by Melanie Sill, The News and Observer, 21 August 19832 parts - 2 copies 238Interview with Claudia Loewenstein Southern Book Review Transcript, 1993Accession no. 2007-0376 1Interview with Lee Smith, Durham Morning Herald, 8 December 1974 2“Interview: Lee Smith,” by Cathy Cruise, Phoebe, Spring/Summer 1992 237Interviews and Articles Various Publications, 1986-2003Accession no. 2007-0376 1Interviews with Five North Carolina writers (including Lee Smith), by William W. Starr, The State, 6 December 1981 1“Journalism stimulating says our newest novelist,” by Joy Williams, The Birmingham News, 8 September 19682 copies 2“Lee Smith - Interview,” by Nancy Parrish, Appalj, Summer 19922 copies 2312Lee Smith, Annie Dillard and the Hollins Group by Nancy Parris Chapter 5 (pgs 225-283) typescript, 1993-1999Accession no. 2007-0376 1“Lee Smith, At Home With Her Muse,” by Ken Ringle, The Washington Post, 4 December 19882 copies 1“Lee Smith,” by Katherine Kearns, DLB Yearbook 1“Lee Smith,” by Ray Sawhill, Interview, January 1990 1“Lee Smith,” interview by Michelle Lodge, Publisher’s Weekly, 20 September 1985 1“Lee Smith: Her People Will Do Anything,” by Joanne Kaufman, The Wall Street Journal, 17 October 19852 copies 1“Lee Smith’s Life Not Daily Novel,” by Eve Zibart, The Nashville Tennessean, 12 March 1972 1“Lee Smith’s Raft of Appalachian Novels,” by Ken Ringle, International Herald Tribune, 10-11 December 1988 1“Lee Smith’s Stories Eavesdrop On Life,” by Ruth Moose, The Charlotte Observer, 4 October 1981 1“Lee Smith’s Stories Spill Longhand From The Anecdotes of Her Life,” by Dannye Romine, The Charlotte Observer, [1980] 1"Life in fiction,” by Lynne Lucas, The News, [circa 1985] 239Mississippi Quarterly, 1998-99Accession no. 2007-0376 2310NC State Magazine "Southern Class", 1999Accession no. 2007-0376 2Notable North Carolina Women, by Jennifer Ravi, (includes Lee Smith), copyright , 1992 1“On Regionalism, Women’s Writing, and Writing as a Woman: A Conversation with Lee Smith,” by Virginia A. Smith, The Southern Review, Autumn 1990 1“On The Mountaintop,” by Priscilla Brown, The Fayetteville Observer/The Fayetteville Times, 2 October 1983 1Oversized articles and interviews removed from Box 23 folder 7, 1989Accession no. 2007-0376 20“Prize money lets Lee Smith luxuriate in language,” by Bridgette A. Lacy, The News and Observer, 8 January 1995 1“Publishing Good Books, The Good Old-Fashioned Way,” by Dean King, Connoisseur, January 1989

(Article about Louis D. Rubin, Jr. - mentions Lee Smith)

1“Rednecks, Belles, and K-Mart Gals - Southern Women Stake Their Claim,” by Thulani Davis, Voice Literary Supplement, February 1986 1“She can go home again,” by Laura Alderson, Roanoke Times and World News, 1 March 1981 1“She Writes While Children Sleep,” by Johanna Seltz, The Chapel Hill Newspaper, 22 January 1976 2“Smith becomes book ‘character’,” by Charlotte Williamson, Daily Telegraph, 19 September 1993 1“Southern writing is in their bones,” by Laura Alderson, The Canberra Times, 29 April 1990 1“Stare at life very hard, fix image in your mind,” by James J. Kilpatrick, The Birmingham News, [circa 1983] (original & copy syndicated column) 2“SVCC honors Lee Smith,” by Kathy Kish, Daily Telegraph, 19 September 1993 1“Talking True,” by Nelljean McConeghey, The Arts Journal, June 1984 2“That Mountain Music,” by Dannye Romine, The Charlotte Observer, 5 July 1992 1“The Power and the Story,” by Ben Cleary, Style Weekly, 29 August 1989 1“The South Rises Again,” by Gene Lyons, Newsweek, 30 September 1985 1“Virginia Voices,” by Robert Merritt, Richmond Times-Dispatch, 25 February 1990 1“What Some Carolinas Writers Are Reading,” by Dannye Romine, The Charlotte Observer, 22 August 1982 1“Words to Remember - How Mothers Influenced 6 Budding Writers,” by Dannye Romine, The Charlotte Observer, 13 May 1984 1“Writers’ Renaissance in North Carolina,” by Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal, 1 November 1989 1“Writes about curse,” , [circa 1983] 2“You Can’t Take the Country Out of the Girl,” by L. Stroud, NCSU - The Alumni Magazine of NCSU, January-February 19922 copies MC 203 Series 05 Lectures, Readings, Speeches, Book Signings, 1981-2003 0.2

The Lectures, Readings, Speeches, Book Signings series chiefly contains news clippings about events in which Smith participated. It documents the wide range of events that Smith has attended in conjunction with her writing career.

211th Annual Queens Book and Author Luncheon, 18 January 1983

Article in The Charlotte Observer, by Dannye Romine

21993 Commencement Address by Lee Smith, Hollins, October 1993 235th Annual Book and Author Luncheon of North Carolina, “Authors at book club luncheon probe distinctive assets of South,” by Abe D. Jones, Jr., The Greensboro Record, 15 February 1984 23rd Annual Cumberland Valley Writers’ Conference, 2-8 August 1981, Application and Program Meet the Author Night - Richlands Area Friends of the Library, 10 September 1981, Newspaper clipping, article by Sarah Davis, Richlands News Press, 9 September 1981, 1981 24th Annual Southern Festival of Books - poster with program on the back (Lee Smith is a speaker), 9-11 October 1992

270th Annual Commencement of Bluefield College, (Lee Smith gave Address), 2 May 1992 2“Appalachian writer spending time at UC,” by Dan Trevas. -- In Charleston Daily Mail, University of Charleston, 26 April 1990 2Arts and Education Council Conference on Southern Literature, Chattanooga, TN, 22-23 February 1985 2“Author to read at McIntyre’s,” , 15 March 1990 2"Author, critic to meet at book luncheon,” by Frances Hallam Hurt, Danville Register and Bee, 4 March 1990 2Bennington Writing Workshops, 30 June-27 July 1985 2"Best Selling Author Makes Guest Appearance at Russell County Public Library,” by Richard Fulgham, The Lebanon News, 5 December 1990 244Book Club Related, 2002-2003Accession no. 2007-0376 2Book Fair International Schedule, Miami Herald, 8 November 1985 2“Book Festival Schedule of Events,” The Tennessean, 14 October 1989 2“Bookmark,” by Roy Parker, Jr. (includes Lee Smith at 10th Annual Southern Writers Symposium at Methodist College, Fayetteville Observer-Times, 21 September 1991 242Conference Programs, 1991-1999Accession no. 2007-0376 2Cumberland Valley Writers’ Conference, 30 July-7 August 1982Schedule of Events 2Eleventh Annual Distinguished Woman Scholar’s Lecture featuring Lee Smith, 7 March 19902 copies of flyer 2"Foote enchants 1,100 with talk on fiction, history at conference,” by Carolyn Mitchell, The Chattanooga Times, 6 April 1991 2“Grundy’s linen aired by Author,” by Harriet McLeod, The Richmond News Leader, 15 November 1985 2Handwritten partial list of readings/speeches, [Spring 1989] 2Hollins College Commencement, Lee Smith gave Address, 15-16 May 1993 2“Inspiration: Southern writer collects ideas from elders,” (Lee Smith at Southern Writers Seminar), by Sheri Guessford, The Daily Beacon, 22 February 1988 2“Lee Smith to speak,” , and advertisement, Knoxville News-Sentinel, 14 February 1988

2Meet the Author Night, newspaper clipping, 10 September 1981 2Methodist College Tenth Annual Southern Writer’s Symposium - Lee Smith, Storyteller, 27-28 September [1991]2 copies and a map 2Miami Book Fair International, 3-10 November 1985,

Program - Book Fair

2Mindful of Her Place, Symposium organized by the Virginia Women’s Cultural History Project, 30 November-1 December 1984 2New Woman of the South, 8 May 19852 copies 1Oversized Pamphlet from "The World of Lee Smith Symposium" removed from Box 24 folder 1, 1998Accession no. 2007-0376 243PEN Gala, 1998Accession no. 2007-0376 2PEN/Faulkner Reading, 24 February 1989 2Poetry and Literature program (including Lee Smith as one of the writers of one of the best short stories) PEN Syndicated Fiction Project, 12 December 19912 copies 2Reading at the University of Richmond, newspaper clipping , [1985] 2Reading at Three Lives, New York, NY, 3 October 1985, clipping from The Village Voice, 8 October 1985 2Schedule for Lee Smith at University of Charleston, 26-27 April 1984 2Seventh Annual Appalachian Writers Workshop and Writers Colony, 5 August 1984 2Seventh Annual Bennington Writing Workshops, 3-30 July 1983 2“Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word,” schedule, Nashville Banner, 13 October 1989 2Speech to Chi-O’s, 10 April 1990 2Susan B. Anthony Birthday Dinner, NC State, 20 February 1989, Program and flyer2 copies of flyer 2“The Autonomous Voice,” 10th Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature, 13-15 October 19832 copies 2The Dr. Robert L. Palmer Memorial Lecture, Cumberland College, Lee Smith - lecturer, 29 October 1992 2The Southern Writers Program, University of Tennessee, 17-18 February 1988, Program2 copies 2The Work of the Southern Writer - in conjunction with the Cumberland Valley Writers’ Conference, 5-7 August 19822 copies 241Tributes and Events, 1997Accession no. 2007-0376 2University of Kentucky’s 8th Annual Women Writers Conference, 2-5 April 1986

2“UR hosts Virginia author, Buckley,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, 10 November 1985 2VCU Writers’ Conference - Lee Smith, 7 July 1989 2Visiting Writers Series at Virginia Tech, 16 November 1983 2Writing as a Human Activity, Conference, 23-25 September 19822 schedules and a map 2“Writing, Reading - A Day For Creating,” by Whitney Vanderwerff, Durham Morning Herald, 16 May 1987,

Spring Writing Conference at Carolina Friends School

MC 203 Series 06 Miscellaneous, 1970, undated 0.1

The Miscellaneous series is a small series which consists of notes for stories, information about other writers, and various memorabilia.

245Lee Smith Photo Postcards, 1970Accession no. 2007-0376 246Lee Smith Photo Postcards, 1970Accession no. 2007-0376 2Miscellaneous 2Notes for Stories 2Other Writers:Anna Darnell Arnoult Miscellaneous MC 203 Series 07 Photographs, 1964, 1990-2000, undated 0.1

The Photographs series consists of photographs and slides of Lee Smith and various other people.

2Photographs : Lee Smith: Wearing blue blouse (2); in office wearing grey sweater & turtleneck; at North Carolina Awards Ceremony; 1964, w/ Santa Claus; Hollins students on Mississippi; Page on his birthday w/ guitar; black & white photo of a man playing tennis in US Open?; school picture of boy w/ one tooth missing & striped brown shirt., 1964 Slides : Lee Smith wearing red turtleneck & grey sweater in office, next to television screen & at a seminar in a lobby with a group of people. The box is marked CCR/Advent. 247Slides by Jim Strickland, 1990-2000Accession no. 2007-0376 MC 203 Series 08 Writings, 1956-2003 5

The Writings series is divided into five subseries, which include Reviews by Lee Smith, Drafts of Novels, Short Stories, Miscellaneous Writing, and Essays.

The series documents Smith's prolific work as a writer. Drafts of Novels are arranged by chronological order of novels. Many of the records regarding novels document the process of creating a novel from Smith's handwritten text to a computer generated manuscript to the blue lines of the novel. Notes and editorial comments accompany drafts of novels. The Short Stories are divided into published and unpublished.

MC 203 Subseries 08.01 Reviews by Lee Smith, 1987-1988

2“Dickey’s ‘Wayfarer’ Is Rich With Mountain Dialogue,” by Lee Smith, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 13 November 1988 2Review of John Shelton Reed’s Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy, by Lee Smith, Spectator, 16 April 1987 Reviews of In Coal Country, by Judith Hendershot and Trouble at the Mines, by Doreen Rappaport, Reviews by Lee Smith, New York Times Book Review, 17 May 1987 MC 203 Subseries 08.02 Drafts of Novels (includes short stories related to novels), 1966-2003