Keri Leigh Merritt
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Oct 17, 2026
Raymond WilliamsHOST
I am your host, Raymond Williams.
Raymond WilliamsHOST
Today, we are speaking with Keri Leigh Merritt, author of the new book, An Inconvenient Woman: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America, published by St. Martin's Press.
Raymond WilliamsHOST
Keri has previously been on the New Books Network to talk about her books Masterless Men: Poor Whites in the Antebellum South and the edited volume Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power.
Raymond WilliamsHOST
Keri Leigh Merritt, welcome back to the New Books Network.
Keri Leigh MerrittGUEST
Thank you so much for having me, Raymond.
Raymond WilliamsHOST
Absolutely.
Raymond WilliamsHOST
I am your host, Raymond Williams.
Raymond WilliamsHOST
Today we are speaking with Keri Leigh Merritt, author of the new book, An Inconvenient Woman: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America, published by St. Martin's Press.
Raymond WilliamsHOST
Keri has previously been on the New Books Network to talk about her books, Masterless Men: Poor Whites in the Antebellum South, and the edited volume, Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power.
Raymond WilliamsHOST
Keri Leigh Merritt, welcome back to the New Books Network.
Keri Leigh MerrittGUEST
Thank you so much for having me, Raymond.
Raymond WilliamsHOST
Absolutely.
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Raymond WilliamsHOST
Um, so I very appreciate you being on, um, Kari.
Raymond WilliamsHOST
Um, you have been listening to the New Books Network.
Raymond WilliamsHOST
I am your host, Raymond Williams.
Raymond WilliamsHOST
Today, we are speaking with Keri Leigh Merritt, author of the new book, An Inconvenient Woman, The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, The Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America, published by St. Martin's Press.
Raymond WilliamsHOST
Keri has previously been on the New Books Network to talk about her books, Masterless Men, Poor Whites in the Antebellum South, and the edited volume, Reconsidering Southern Labor History, Race, Class, and Power.
Raymond WilliamsHOST
Keri Leigh Merritt, welcome back to the New Books Network.
Keri Leigh MerrittGUEST
Thank you so much for having me, Raymond.
Raymond WilliamsHOST
Absolutely.
Raymond WilliamsHOST
I am your host, Raymond Williams.
Raymond WilliamsHOST
Today we are speaking with Keri Leigh Merritt, author of the new book, An Inconvenient Woman: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America, published by St. Martin's Press.
Raymond WilliamsHOST
Keri has previously been on the New Books Network to talk about her books, Masterless Men: Poor Whites in the Antebellum South, and the edited volume, Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power.
Raymond WilliamsHOST
Keri Leigh Merritt, welcome back to the New Books Network.
Keri Leigh MerrittGUEST
Thank you so much for having me, Raymond.
Raymond WilliamsHOST
Absolutely.
Evan AxelbankHOST
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Evan AxelbankHOST
I'm Evan Axelbank, and today we're going to speak with Carrie Lee Merritt, the author of An Inconvenient Woman, The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith.
Evan AxelbankHOST
The Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America.
Evan AxelbankHOST
This is the fourth book that she has written or edited.
42 MINS LATER
Keri Leigh MerrittGUEST
So it's just which one's next.
Evan AxelbankHOST
All right.
Evan AxelbankHOST
Carrie Lee Merritt, the author of An Inconvenient Woman, The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, The Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America.
Evan AxelbankHOST
Thank you so much for being here.
Andrew KeenHOST
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Andrew KeenHOST
A few days ago, we did a show about the American dissident thinker, critic of Jim Crow America, Lillian Smith, um, with an author, Keri Leigh Merritt, who has her biography.
Andrew KeenHOST
Uh, the new book is called An Inconvenient Woman, and she was indeed a very inconvenient woman for, uh, the American South, for the system of Jim Crow.
Andrew KeenHOST
And we're talking about another inconvenient woman today, perhaps even more inconvenient than Lillian Smith.