Elizabeth Spencer
(1921 - 2019)Born in Carrollton, Mississippi, Spencer was valedictorian of her graduating class at local J.Z. George High School. She earned her Bachelor of Arts at Belhaven College in Jackson, Mississippi and her Master's Degree in Literature at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee in 1943.
Spencer taught at the junior-college level for two years before accepting a job with the Nashville Tennessean, but she soon returned to teaching, this time at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. In 1953 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and left Mississippi to live in Italy and pursue writing full time.
In 1957, the fiction jury of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction recommended that she should be awarded that year's prize for her novel, The Voice at the Back Door, but the Pulitzer board, which has sole discretion for awarding the prize, made no award.
Spencer taught at the junior-college level for two years before accepting a job with the Nashville Tennessean, but she soon returned to teaching, this time at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. In 1953 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and left Mississippi to live in Italy and pursue writing full time.
In 1957, the fiction jury of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction recommended that she should be awarded that year's prize for her novel, The Voice at the Back Door, but the Pulitzer board, which has sole discretion for awarding the prize, made no award.
Novels
Fire in the Morning (1948)
This Crooked Way (1952)
The Voice At the Back Door (1956)
The Light in the Piazza (1960)
Knights & Dragons (1965)
No Place for an Angel (1967)
The Snare (1972)
The Salt Line (1984)
The Night Travellers (1991)
This Crooked Way (1952)
The Voice At the Back Door (1956)
The Light in the Piazza (1960)
Knights & Dragons (1965)
No Place for an Angel (1967)
The Snare (1972)
The Salt Line (1984)
The Night Travellers (1991)
Collections
Ship Island & Other Stories (1968)
The Stories of Elizabeth Spencer (1981)
Marilee (1981)
Jack of Diamonds (1988)
On the Gulf (1991)
The Light in the Piazza & Other Italian Tales (1996)
The Southern Woman (2001)
Starting Over (2014)
The Stories of Elizabeth Spencer (1981)
Marilee (1981)
Jack of Diamonds (1988)
On the Gulf (1991)
The Light in the Piazza & Other Italian Tales (1996)
The Southern Woman (2001)
Starting Over (2014)
Omnibus editions show
Elizabeth Spencer recommends
The Holy Ghost Speakeasy and Revival (2018)
Terry Roberts
"Once again, Terry Roberts skillfully explores the South to find answers from the King James Bible and jars of white lightning from mountain stills."
Anthologies containing stories by Elizabeth Spencer
New Stories from the South 2010 (2010)
The Year's Best
(New Stories from the South)
edited by
Amy Hempel
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2009 (2009)
(New Stories from the South)
edited by
Madison Smartt Bell
More anthologies
Awards
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