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Katy Simpson Smith

Born

Jackson, MS, The United States

Website

http://www.katysimpsonsmith.com

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Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction, Nonfiction

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Katy Simpson Smith attended Mount Holyoke College and received a PhD in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She has been working as an Adjunct Professor at Tulane University and is the author of We Have Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South, 1750-1835. Her debut novel, The Story of Land and Sea, was published by Harper in August 2014. She lives in New Orleans.

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Average rating: 3.21 · 4,243 ratings · 826 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Story of Land and Sea 2.99 avg rating — 2,348 ratings — published 2014 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Everlasting 3.33 avg rating — 696 ratings — published 2020 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Weeds 3.55 avg rating — 605 ratings — published 2023 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Free Men 3.58 avg rating — 541 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hidden History of New Orleans by Josh Foreman, Ryan Starrett, Katy Simpson Smith (Foreword) 3.70 avg rating — 44 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Have Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South, 1750-1835 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Call and Response: by Mississippi Senior Citizens and Public High Schoolers it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	''Authors of their being'' 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Maltese Version: A Novel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Children, even the most shy and tongue-tied, spill all their vibrancy out into the world. There are no reserves, no deep wells where emotion sinks and is buried.”
― Katy Simpson Smith, The Story of Land and Sea

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“I've never done a thing as great as made a man, but were I your silent God, I'd sob to see my creations split themselves asunder.”
― Katy Simpson Smith, The Everlasting

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“The thought of her body having a purpose was natural and pleasurable, but the purpose that was proposed–spitting out another human, and having a foreign object stuck into it along the way–seemed inadequate. To be poked into and pushed out of, like something static, something without legs, without a brain.”
― Katy Simpson Smith, The Everlasting

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What shall we read in January, 2022? Books published after 1980.

Thirteen Moons, by Charles Frazier

15 votes 25.4%

South Toward Home: Travels in Southern Literature, by Margaret Eby

13 votes 22.0%

Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger: A Memoir, by Lisa Donovan

10 votes 16.9%

Bewilderness, by Karen Tucker

10 votes 16.9%

Citizens Creek, by Lalita Tademy

7 votes 11.9%

Free Men, by Katy Simpson Smith

4 votes 6.8%

59 total votes

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