Lillian Smith
Lillian Smith
Lillian Eugenia Smithwas a writer and social critic of the Southern United States, known most prominently for her best-selling novel Strange Fruit. A white woman who openly embraced controversial positions on matters of race and gender equality, she was a southern liberal unafraid to criticize segregation and work toward the dismantling of Jim Crow laws, at a time when such actions virtually guaranteed social ostracism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 December 1897
CountryUnited States of America