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American journalist

For the fictional photojournalist, see Civil War (film).

Lee Harold Smith (born April 10, 1962) is an American journalist and author.

He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and was raised in New York City.^[1] He is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and was a senior editor at The Weekly Standard.

Cathedrals of Kudzu offers twenty-nine short columns broken into four sections: “The Pen,” “The Sword,” “The Cross,” and “Sweet Home Carolina.”.

Cathedrals of Kudzu offers twenty-nine short columns broken into four sections: “The Pen,” “The Sword,” “The Cross,” and “Sweet Home Carolina.”.

Lee Smith is the author of fourteen novels, including Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, Saving Grace, and Guests on Earth, as well as four collections of.

No one has tapped into Southern truths quite like the Virginia-raised author, whose fifteen novels span Appalachia to the Florida Keys.

Lee Smith is known for fiction with a true southern accent, and Hal Crowther is known for commentary with a bite.

Lee Smith was born in in Grundy, Virginia, a small coal-mining town in the Appalachian Mountains.

Smith was formerly editor-in-chief of The Village Voice Literary Supplement, a national monthly literary review. He has written for publications including The New York Times, The Hudson Review, Ecco Press, Atheneum, Grand Street, GQ, and Talk.

At the time of the 9/11 attacks, Smith was working as an editor at The Village Voice and a contributor to Artforum.^[2] By his own account in his book, The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations., Smith was dissatisfied with the Orientalist explanations of the Muslim world as presented by Edward Said, whom he had met and spok