STRANGE, MOVING, AND MARVELOUSLY ALIVE.

I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN.

- LAIRD HUNT


BOOKS

THE EVERLASTING

“Only Katy Simpson Smith could have written a novel of such elegance, emotional power, and grace.” - Nathaniel Rich

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FREE MEN

“FREE MEN will have you gasping for breath” –Hannah Pittard

“The most sophisticated historical novelist of her generation” –Joseph J. Ellis

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THE STORY OF LAND AND SEA

“A rare glimpse of grace in a fictional world” –Anita Shreve

“An heir apparent to Michael Ondaatje and Marilynne Robinson” –Paul Yoon

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WE HAVE RAISED ALL OF YOU

“An essential contribution to the field” - Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

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ABOUT

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Katy Simpson Smith was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. She is the author of the novels The Story of Land and Sea, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and one of Vogue’s Best Books of 2014; Free Men; and The Everlasting, a New York Times Best Historical Fiction Book of 2020. Her writing has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Oxford American, Granta, and elsewhere. She received a PhD in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and is also the author of We Have Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South, 1750-1835. She lives in New Orleans.