Katy Simpson Smith
Katy Simpson Smith received a PhD in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives in New Orleans.
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Katy Simpson Smith received a PhD in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives in New Orleans.
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Katy Simpson Smith's Books
Three men find an unusual friendship during a trying time in America’s history. In 1788, what is now Alabama an escaped slave, a Creek Indian and a wayward white man come together to travel for a few days and end up committing a murder. Tracking them is a Frenchman named Le Clerc; Le Clerc is sen...
Free Men by Katy Simpson Smith is about a manhunt in 1788 in Alabama for the unlikely combination of a white man, a runaway slave, and an American Indian. This book is a character study of the three criminals and the man chasing them. Socially, economically, and legally, these men couldn't be any mo...
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