Program Highlight:
Moving Forward and Looking Back
The two authors will read from and discuss their memoirs. Read more
Awards
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.
