Elizabeth Spencer
Elizabeth Spencer (1921–2019) is author of nine novels, seven collections of short stories, a memoir, and a play. Her novella The Light in the Piazza (1960) was adapted for the screen in 1962 and transformed into a Broadway musical of the same name in 2005. She was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
On The Gulf
A collection of short stories, all set on the Gulf Coast, by a master of the form
Fire in the Morning
A great writer’s first novel of a southern family’s vendetta
The Snare
The reprinting of a major southern writer’s New Orleans novel that explores a young woman’s temptation to live on the periphery of evil
The Night Travellers
A Vietnam-era novel of love, protest, and fervent beliefs
This Crooked Way
A classic novel of one man’s will and the undercurrent of violence in the Mississippi Delta
The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales
Seven fascinating tales in which southerners surrender to the mesmerizing spell of Italy
Apostles of Light
A spellbinding novel named as a finalist for the National Book Award in 1973
The Edward Tales
A focused character study of a recurring figure in the fiction of one of Mississippi’s greatest writers
Country Churchyards
Eudora Welty’s poignant photographs of Mississippi graveyards and memorial stones paired with Elizabeth Spencer’s exploration of the meanings the photographs yield and the light they shine onto Welty’s fiction
The Edward Tales
A focused character study of a recurring figure in the fiction of one of Mississippi’s greatest writers