
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, April 19, 1991                   TAG: 9104190228
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B6   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: BIG STONE GAP                                LENGTH: Short

AUTHOR WILL SPEAK AT COLLEGE FESTIVAL

Lee Smith, author of the award-winning novels "Oral History" and "Fair and Tender Ladies," will be the featured speaker at the 15th annual John Fox Jr. Festival at Mountain Empire Community College Tuesday.

Admission is free. The festival will start at 10 a.m.

Smith has received the 1991 Robert Penn Warren Prize for Fiction, the 1990 Sir Walter Raleigh Award, the 1987 John Dos Passos Award for literature and others. She is an associate professor of English at North Carolina State University and lives in Chapel Hill.

"Me and My Baby View the Eclipse," her most recent story collection, is out in paperback. "I Remane, Forever, Ivy Rowe," a play adapted from her "Fair and Tender Ladies," was produced in New York last fall. - Southwest bureau

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