Katy Simpson Smith was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. She is the author of the novels THE STORY OF LAND AND SEA, a Vogue best book of the year; FREE MEN; THE EVERLASTING, a New York Times best historical fiction book of the year; and THE WEEDS. She is also the author of WE HAVE RAISED ALL OF YOU: Motherhood in the South, 1750–1835. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Oxford American, Granta and Literary Hub, among other publications. She 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.

Books by Katy Simpson Smith

The Story of Land and Sea

by Katy Simpson Smith - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Set in a small coastal town in North Carolina during the waning years of the American Revolutionary War, this incandescent debut novel follows three generations of a family --- fathers and daughters, mother and son, white and slave --- whose members search for redemption amidst a heady brew of war, kidnapping, slavery and violence.