“I want people to read the article and feel like they have spent time with Lee Smith”

Silas House

WRITER

Silas House has written seven novels, including, which won the 2023 Southern Book Prize. He became Kentucky’s poet laureate earlier this year, cementing his status as a modern titan of Southern literature. For this issue, he profiled one of his own heroes, the heralded Virginia-raised author Lee Smith (p. 120),