Now Ivy, this is how spring tastes. This is the taste of spring. Lee Smith is the author of Family Linen and Oral History, as well as four other novels and one collection of short stories. The 1988 winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, she teaches at North Carolina State University and lives in Chapel Hill with her husband and children.

Now Ivy, this is how spring tastes. This is the taste of spring. Lee Smith is the author of Family Linen and Oral History, as well as four other novels and one collection of short stories. The 1988 winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, she teaches at North Carolina State University and lives in Chapel Hill with her husband and children.

Now Ivy, this is how spring tastes. This is the taste of spring. Lee Smith is the author of Family Linen and Oral History, as well as four other novels and one collection of short stories. The 1988 winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, she teaches at North Carolina State University and lives in Chapel Hill with her husband and children.

Now Ivy, this is how spring tastes. This is the taste of spring. Lee Smith is the author of Family Linen and Oral History, as well as four other novels and one collection of short stories. The 1988 winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, she teaches at North Carolina State University and lives in Chapel Hill with her husband and children.