Synopses & Reviews
Since 1944, when she published her first story, Elizabeth Spencer has been acclaimed as a writer of short fiction in the great tradition of Welty, Chopin, and Mansfield. The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction, her first collection in almost fifteen years, restores to print the author's most masterful stories and novellasincluding "The Light in the Piazza" - and publishes more than ten new stories for the first time. This collection celebrates a six-decade career devoted to the art of the story and the novella - a literary event for the lover of short fiction.
Synopsis
Since 1944, when she published her first story, Elizabeth Spencer has been acclaimed as a writer of short fiction in the great tradition of Welty, Chopin, and Mansfield. The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction, her first collection in almost fifteen years, restores to print the author's most masterful stories and novellasincluding "The Light in the Piazza" - and publishes more than ten new stories for the first time. This collection celebrates a six-decade career devoted to the art of the story and the novella - a literary event for the lover of short fiction.
About the Author
Elizabeth Spencer is the author of more than a dozen collections of stories and novels. Born in 1921 in Carrollton, Mississippi, she currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.