Books by Lillian Smith

Bringing together short stories, lectures, essays, op-ed pieces, interviews, and excerpts from her longer fiction and non fiction, A Lillian Smith Reader offers the first comprehensive collection of her work and a compelling introduction to one of the South's most important writers.

Bringing together short stories, lectures, essays, op-ed pieces, interviews, and excerpts from her longer fiction and non fiction, A Lillian Smith Reader offers the first comprehensive collection of her work and a compelling introduction to one of the South's most important writers.

In this work Lillian Smith, writer and civil rights crusader, recalls her fond memories of the Christmas season. She tells of the year-after-year rituals, sights, sounds, smells and tastes, and of such times as when her family hosted 48 chain-gang convicts and their guards to a holiday feast.

"This book brings Lillian Smith into focus as an unjustly neglected writer of force and talent and a courageous crusader for the unfettered potential of the human spirit." -Publishers Weekly