(editor and author of introduction, University Press of Mississippi, 2001)
Part of Mississippi’s Literary Conversations Series
How does a girl from Grundy, Virginia, become a successful writer? The interviews and profiles in Conversations with Lee Smith tell the story of one woman’s discovery of her coal-mining hometown as a potential “literary place.”
“Editor Linda Tate has made an excellent selection that affords us a rounded picture of Smith as a writer and as a person.” – The State