“Some of our most treasured southern writers have been deeply moved by their experiences in the South, such as mine in Grundy, Virginia. She will also read from her latest book, Mrs. In Smith's discussion entitled “Sense of Place: Natural Landscapes and the Southern Writer,” Smith ( On Agate Hill, Oral History, Saving Grace, The Devil's Dream, and Fair and Tender Ladies) will discuss her oral storytelling roots and upbringing in rural, southwest Virginia and reflect on how the southern landscape influences her writing much like it has impacted many southern writers. Winners of SELC's annual writing award will also be announced. at City Space on the downtown pedestrian mall. Box 55685 Jackson, MS 39296-5685 designating that it is for the Bettye Jolly Lecture Series.The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), the largest nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the environment of the Southeast, is pleased to host renowned southern writer Lee Smith at the upcoming Virginia Festival of the Book in a special event on Saturday, March 20 from 12 noon to 2 p.m. To make gifts to the endowment for the lecture series, send contributions to the Eudora Welty Foundation, P. The lecture is sponsored by the Welty Foundation/Millsaps College Partnership. The author, most recently, of Guests on Earth, Smith is a New York Times best-selling author and the recipient of the North Carolina Award for Literature and a Southern Books Critics Circle Award. She is also a member of the Eudora Welty Foundation National Advisory Board. ![]() Not pictured are Lynn Evans and Becky Youngblood. Other club members pictured are, top row, Linda Lane, Martha Blount, Susan Shands Jones, and Julianne Summerford seated, Sister Simmons, Suzanne Marrs, and Judy Parker. Shown at a book club gathering celebrating Marrs’s book on the letters of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell, Jolly is in the top row, fourth person. When I told Lee about Bettye and this extraordinary group, she was delighted to come and honor Eudora and Bettye.” Marrs meets with the group and is, herself, inspired by their interest in good writing, solid research, and the rewards of reading. The group has been meeting monthly for almost ten years, Marrs says, and “Bettye was our organizer and kept us focused. Susan Shands Jones credits Jolly with being a great researcher for the reading selections and keeping the group on task. A faithful member of a book club that was initiated in a Great Topics Seminar led by Suzanne Marrs, Welty Foundation scholar-in-residence at Millsaps College, Jolly “held the group together,” says member Becky Youngblood. Honoring the love of reading and good writing, the series was inspired by the late Bettye Jolly of Jackson, Mississippi, a long-time docent at the Eudora Welty House and Garden. She is a proud daughter of the North Carolina Appalachian Hills and is a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Her novel The Last Girls was a New York Times bestseller as well as the winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. A collection of her essays, entitled Dimestore, will be published in 2016. Smith is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. Some 130 people attended the talk, followed by a book signing and reception. ![]() Award-winning author Lee Smith, who has penned 13 novels and four collections of short stories, keynoted the Eudora Welty Foundation inaugural Bettye Jolly Lecture Series on Tuesday, March 31, in the Garden of the Eudora Welty House.
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