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Elizabeth Spencer

Born

in Carrollton, Mississippi, The United States

July 21, 1921

Died

December 22, 2019

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Memoir

Influences

Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner,E. M. Forster, Josep ...more

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Elizabeth Spencer was an American writer. Spencer's first novel, Fire in the Morning, was published in 1948. She has written 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 (1960) was adapted for the screen in 1962 and transformed into a Broadway musical of the same name in 2005. She is a five-time recipient of the O. Henry Award for short fiction. ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 3,298 ratings · 491 reviews · 111 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Light in the Piazza 3.51 avg rating — 560 ratings — published 1960 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Starting Over 3.58 avg rating — 346 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Voice at the Back Door 3.99 avg rating — 260 ratings — published 1956 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales (Banner Books) by Elizabeth Spencer, Robert Phillips (Introduction) 3.53 avg rating — 255 ratings — published 1960 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction 3.73 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2001 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Landscapes of the Heart: A Memoir 3.73 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1997 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Salt Line 3.20 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1984 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Place for an Angel 3.06 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1967 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stories of Elizabeth Spencer by Elizabeth Spencer, Eudora Welty (Foreword) 4.09 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1981 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Snare by Elizabeth Spencer, Peggy Whitman Prenshaw (Introduction) 3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1972 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Elizabeth Spencer (?)

“August in Mississippi is different from July. As to heat, it is not a question of degree but of kind. July heat is furious, but in August the heat has killed even itself and lies dead over us.”
― Elizabeth Spencer, Fire in the Morning

tags: mississippi-authors, summer, weather

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“He read it over twenty times and though the darkness that sang on held steady about him, the unhurried words fell bright through his mind, going down golden through deep water, and when one passed another came, ceaselessly, shining.”
― Elizabeth Spencer, This Crooked Way

tags: mississippi-authors, reading, words

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“People hear whispers as loud as guns.”
― Elizabeth Spencer, The Voice at the Back Door

tags: mississippi-authors

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Polls

What shall we read in July, 2025? Books published in or before 1990.

A Gathering of Old Men, by Ernest J. Gaines

13 votes, 27.7%

The Land Breakers,by John Ehle

12 votes, 25.5%

The Voice at the Back Door, by Elizabeth Spencer

8 votes, 17.0%

Spencer's Mountain, by Earl Hamner Jr.

7 votes, 14.9%

Goodbye to a River: A Narrative, by John Graves

4 votes, 8.5%

The Man Who Rode Midnight, by Elmer Kelton

3 votes, 6.4%

47 total votes

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