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Lee Ownby is a Tennessee real estate attorney and debut novelist. Born in Tennessee and raised in Virginia, he returned to his home state for college, graduating from Carson-Newman University in 1974, and has practiced property law there for more than 45 years. His essays and non-fiction have appeared in the Knoxville News Sentinel, The Atlanta Constitution, The Freeman, AAA Going Places, and the literary quarterly Southern Reader. His debut thriller, SEIZIN, draws on decades of land title, eminent domain, and zoning work to explore corporate progress, legal corruption, and the fight to preserve the Great Smoky Mountains.
A veteran real estate lawyer turns decades of title disputes and land grabs into SEIZIN, a debut thriller set in the Great Smoky Mountains, where a reporter hunts the killer who took her mother.
By DORX Chronicle Staff · October 20, 2026
