Elizabeth Spencer Spencer
Elizabeth Spencer was a Mississippi novelist and short story writer who wrote with quiet elegance about the American South and Italy. The Light in the Piazza is her most celebrated novella.
Works
- Fire in the MorningDebut novel about a Mississippi woman caught between tradition and new possibilities
- The Voice at the Back DoorNovel exploring race and politics in the American South during the civil rights era
- The Light in the PiazzaNovella of two Americans in Italy discovering romance and unexpected family connections
- No Place for an AngelNovel of a Manhattan family's moral and spiritual crisis spanning decades
- The Stories of Elizabeth SpencerCollection of stories spanning decades and continents, her body of short fiction