What is Elizabeth Spencer (writer)?
'''Elizabeth Spencer''' (July 19, 1921 – December 22, 2019) was an [[Americans|American]] writer. She was born in [[Carrollton, Mississippi]]. Spencer's first novel, ''Fire in the Morning'', was published in 1948. She wrote a total of nine novels, seven collections of short stories, a memoir (''Landscapes of the Heart'', 1998), and a play (''For Lease or Sale'', 1989). Her novella ''[[The Light in the Piazza (novel)|The Light in the Piazza]]'' (1960) was made into a [[The Light in the Piazza (movie)|movie]] in 1962 and made into a [[The Light in the Piazza (musical)|Broadway musical]] of the same name in 2005. She was a five-time recipient of the [[O. Henry Award]] for short fiction. Spencer's mother was the great-aunt of U.S. Senator [[John McCain]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metronc.com/article/?id=1513|title=metronc.com|website=www.metronc.com|access-date=October 20, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080531043443/http://www.metronc.com/article/?id=1513|archive-date=May 31, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> Spencer died on December 22, 2019 in [[Chapel Hill, North Carolina]] at the age of 98.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/23/arts/elizabeth-spencer-dead.html|title=Elizabeth Spencer, Author of 'The Light in the Piazza,' Dies at 98|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=December 23, 2019}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * {{Official website|http://www.elizabethspencerwriter.com/}} *{{cite journal| url=http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2417/the-art-of-fiction-no-110-elizabeth-spencer| title=Elizabeth Spencer, The Art of Fiction No. 110| author= Robert Phillips| journal=The Paris Review| date=Summer 1989 | volume=Summer 1989| issue=111}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Spencer, Elizabeth}} [[Category:1921 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:American novelists]] [[Category:Writers from Mississippi]] [[Category:Writers from North Carolina]] [[Category:People from Jackson, Mississippi]] [[Category:People from Chapel Hill, North Carolina]] {{US-bio-stub}}