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Lillian Smith
Lillian Smith
  • Born: December 12, 1897
  • Died: September 28, 1966
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer

Lillian Eugenia Smith was a writer and social critic of the Southern United States, known most prominently for her best-selling novel Strange Fruit (1944). 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.