Nancy Smith Fichter working with Docents.

Lillian E Smith

If you missed the opportunity this morning to screen two documentary films on Lillian E. Smith, hear from renowned scholars, and tour the writers home place. . . .well, you missed something special! As a reminder, you still have an opportunity to tour the home and view the films tomorrow (Sunday) morning at the Lillian E. Smith Center in Clayton. If you have not had an opportunity to see the special exhibit at the Rabun County Historical Society, please do! And if you have not read the works of Lillian E. Smith, you can find her books at Prater’s Main Street Books and Coffee Nook in Clayton.
I've also set up a blog, with links to The Lillian E. Smith Foundation and Southern Literary Trail : www.lillianesmith.blogspot.com

"I began to see racism and its rituals of segregation as a symptom of a grave illness," Smith wrote. "When people think more of their skin color than of their souls, something has happened to them."

Most widely held works by Lillian Eugenia Smith

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Strange fruit : a novel by Lillian Eugenia Smith( Book )
37 editions published between 1944 and 2006 in 7 languages and held by 1,943 libraries worldwide
The author reads excerpts from her novel, Strange fruit which is based on deep memories from her own childhood in the South. She notes that the novel is a harsh parable on the tragedy, loneliness and despair of the children who are "the strange fruit of white culture's twisted branches."

Killers of the dream by Lillian Eugenia Smith( Book )
10 editions published between 1949 and 1994 in English and held by 1,747 libraries worldwide

The journey by Lillian Eugenia Smith( Book )
8 editions published between 1954 and 1965 in English and held by 733 libraries worldwide
Joan Titus reads from selection of poems by Lillian Smith.

Memory of a large Christmas by Lillian Eugenia Smith( Book )
7 editions published between 1962 and 1996 in English and held by 718 libraries worldwide

Our faces, our words by Lillian Eugenia Smith( Book )
3 editions published between 1964 and 1966 in English and held by 694 libraries worldwide

One hour by Lillian Eugenia Smith( Book )
7 editions published between 1959 and 1994 in 3 languages and held by 674 libraries worldwide

The winner names the age : a collection of writings by Lillian Eugenia Smith( Book )
2 editions published between 1978 and 1982 in English and held by 587 libraries worldwide

How am I to be heard? : letters of Lillian Smith by Lillian Eugenia Smith( Book )
2 editions published in 1993 in English and held by 583 libraries worldwide

Now is the time by Lillian Eugenia Smith( Book )
4 editions published between 1955 and 2004 in English and held by 524 libraries worldwide

South today( Serial )
in English and held by 40 libraries worldwide

There are things to do by Lillian Eugenia Smith( Book )
4 editions published between 1942 and 1946 in English and held by 31 libraries worldwide

Great women writers read their work( Recording )
2 editions published in 1987 in English and held by 29 libraries worldwide

The white Christian and his conscience by Lillian Eugenia Smith( Book )
2 editions published in 1945 in English and held by 23 libraries worldwide

Miss Smith of Georgia( Visual )
3 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 16 libraries worldwide
Portrait of the Georgia author and civil rights activist Lillian Eugenia Smith. The program includes extensive interviews with the author as well as brief appearances by author Carson McCullers and actress Ruby Dee.

Buying a new world with old Confederate bills by Lillian Eugenia Smith( Book )
4 editions published between 1942 and 1943 in English and held by 10 libraries worldwide

Two men and a bargain by Lillian Eugenia Smith( Book )
2 editions published between 1943 and 1946 in English and held by 6 libraries worldwide

Humans in bondage by Lillian Eugenia Smith( Book )
2 editions published between 1943 and 1944 in English and held by 5 libraries worldwide

Extraño fruto by Lillian Eugenia Smith( Book )
in Spanish and held by 4 libraries worldwide

Frutto proibito, romanzo by Lillian Eugenia Smith( Book )
1 edition published in 1947 in Italian and held by 4 libraries worldwide

North Georgia review( Serial )
in English and held by 4 libraries worldwide

Most widely held works about Lillian Eugenia Smith

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• In search of the silent South : southern liberals and the race issue by Morton Sosna( Book )
• Lillian Smith by Louise Blackwell( Book )
• The South in Black and white : race, sex, and literature in the 1940s by McKay Jenkins( Book )
• Lillian Smith, a southerner confronting the South : a biography by Anne C Loveland( Book )
• A bibliography of Lillian Smith & Paula Snelling by Margaret Sullivan( Book )
• Oral history interview with Calvin Kytle, January 19, 1991 interview A-0365, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) by Calvin Kytle( Book )
• A bibliography of Lillian Smith & Paula Snelling, with an index to South Today by Margaret Sullivan( Book )
• Lillian Smith : thorn in the flesh of crackerdom by Pat Bryan Brewer( Book )
• Out of the chrysalis : Lillian Smith and the transformation of the South by Kathleen Atkinson Miller( Book )
• Woman born of the South : race, region and gender in the work of Lillian Smith by Roseanne V Camacho( Book )
• The social criticism of Lillian Smith by Giles Gregory Hall( Book )
• Miss Smith of Georgia( Visual )
• Sites of Southern memory : the autobiographies of Katharine DuPre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray by Margaret Darlene O'Dell( Book )
• A stirring up of love and antagonism" : Carson McCullers, Lillian Smith, and southern ambivalence on the American stage by Casey Kayser( Book )
• Bio-bibliography of Miss Lillian Smith by Letty Morehouse( Book )
• Secular priests in the works of Smith, Styron and Percy : spiritually in the modern world by Suzanne Elizabeth Setzer( Book )
• Lillian Smith as a dissenter : paper, [198 by Judy Fuller( Book )
• Linda Abess Ellis Collection, 1947-1948 by Linda A Ellis( )
• Charleen Swansea papers, 1928-2004 by Charleen Swansea( )
• Lillian Smith's concept of the southern woman by Jeanette McAlister Hurray( Book )

Southern Literary Trail Brochure

Southern Literary Trail features Lillian E. Smith Center in Clayton

The Lillian E. Smith Center, located in Clayton, has been selected as one of seven sites in Georgia on the tri-state (Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia) Southern Literary Trail, a project uniting homes of writers and literary landmarks into one tri-state pathway. The Southern Literary trail in Georgia features Lillian E. Smith, Margaret Mitchell, Joel Chandler Harris, Erskine Caldwell, Alice Walker, Flannery O’Connor and Carson McCullers.

The weekend of March 14-15 will recognize Lillian E. Smith, with events including:

Presentations and open discussions by two recognized scholars and writers:

1. Rose Gladney, recognized for her scholarly, pedagogical, and writing talents, served on the American Studies faculty of the University of Alabama until her retirement. She continues her professional contributions as a participant and presenter at various conferences and symposiums. She is the author of the award winning HOW AM I TO BE HEARD: Letters of Lillian E. Smith.
2. Will Brantley, professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, is author of FEMININE SENSE IN SOUTHERN MEMOIR, which was awarded the 1992 Eudora Welty Prize. (this book addresses the significance of six writers identified with the Southern Literary Renaissance: Lillian Smith, Ellen Glasgow, Eudora Welty, Lillian Hellman, Katherine Ann Porter, and Zora Neale Hurston).

Showings of two documentary films:

1. Miss Smith of Georgia
2. Miss Lil’s Camp

Guided tours of the Lillian E. Smith Center, which was Smith’s home place and the site where she did most of her writing. This includes her living spaces, her library, cottages from the camp she directed, a small house museum where she did her final writing, and her gravesite.

Supper based on Lillian Smith’s family recipes (reservation only)

Exhibit at the Rabun County Historical Society

Special features on southern writers at the Rabun County Library, with the month of March focusing on Lillian E. Smith

Special display at Prater’s Main Street Books

Area restaurants featuring Lillian E. Smith family recipes during March

For more information and group reservations, please contact the CVB at 706-982-4754. Read more.

You can download a .pdf file of the Southern Literary Trail brochure