September 4-6, 2009

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The AJC Decatur Book Festival Presented by DeKalb Medical
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The Lillian Smith Award

The Decatur Book Festival will host the Lillian Smith Award presentation for the second year in a row. More info coming soon!

Lillian Smith, a native of Clayton, Georgia, wrote Strange Fruit (1944), the tragic story of a white man, black woman, murder, and a small town lynching, and other works about the negative effects—for both whites and blacks—of racism and segregation. Since 1968, the Lillian Smith Books Award, presented by the Southern Regional Council and University of Georgia, has been given to authors who write about racial and social inequality, justice, and human understanding in the South.

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