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.""In this first book of interviews with Smith, she revels in character and sense of place as cornerstones to her art. ""What interests me most in writing are the characters,"" she says. ""I have a lot of trouble thinking of plots, but I love to create the people. I think a person that you create is coming out of some aspect of yourself.""Smith's career spans three decades-beginning in 1968 with the publication of The Last Day the Dog Bushes Bloomed-and includes ten novels, three collections of stories, one novella, and numerous essays, nearly all of which, since 1980, have focused on her native Appalachia. It is through conversation with others that Lee Smith...
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