Elizabeth Spencer (1) (1921–2019)
Auteur de The Voice at the Back Door
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A propos de l'auteur
Elizabeth Spencer is the author of more than a dozen collections of stories & novels. Born in 1921 in Carrollton, Mississippi, she currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (Bowker Author Biography) Elizabeth Spencer was born on July 19, 1921, in Carrollton, Miss., to James and Mary (McCain) afficher plus Spencer. Her father was a businessman and farmer. Her mother¿s family owned a plantation where black servants abounded long after the abolition of slavery. Elizabeth grew up in a racially segregated town of 500 and in a home filled with books. She began writing stories as a child. Elizabeth graduated from Belhaven College in Jackson, Miss., in 1942 and earned a master¿s in 1943 from Vanderbilt University in Nashville. She taught junior college classes for two years and was a reporter for The Nashville Tennessean for a year. Her well-received first novel, Fire in the Morning (1948), created a Mississippi town, with a history of its citizens, conflicts and values. Her second novel, This Crooked Way (1952), was also set in the South. From 1948 to 1951, she taught at the University of Mississippi at Oxford. After a year in New York, she returned to Oxford briefly, then won a fellowship and left for Europe. She soon released several novels including Knights and Dragons (1965) and No Place for an Angel (1967) and a collection of short stories, Ship Island and Other Stories (1968). Elizabeth Spencer taught from 1976 to 1986 at Concordia University in Montreal and from 1986 to 1992 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Elizabeth Spencer passed away ib December 22,2019 at the age of 98. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Elizabeth Spencer
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (LOA #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and… (2021) 49 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature (1991) — Contributeur — 142 exemplaires
More Dixie Ghosts: More Haunting, Spine-Chilling Stories from the American South (1994) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
32 Współczesne Opowiadania Amerykańskie - Tom II — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1921-07-19
- Date de décès
- 2019-12-22
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Carrollton, Mississippi, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Italy
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Jackson, Mississippi, USA - Études
- Vanderbilt University (MA)
Belhaven College (BA) - Professions
- novelist
short-story writer
playwright
memoirist - Relations
- Percy, Walker (colleague)
Foote, Shelby (colleague)
Lucas, Craig (colleague) - Organisations
- Fellowship of Southern Writers (charter member)
University of Mississippi
Concordia University (Montreal)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Prix et distinctions
- O. Henry Award (x 5)
Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement (2001)
John Dos Passos Prize (1991)
PEN/Malamud Award (2007)
Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature (2014)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [1952])
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 24
- Aussi par
- 22
- Membres
- 900
- Popularité
- #28,477
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 19
- ISBN
- 97
- Langues
- 1
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