Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (LOA #344)
The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
- Hardcover
850 pages
- Release Date
17 August 2021
Summary
On her centennial, a contemporary of Flannery O’Connor and Harper Lee joins the Library of America with a volume that restores to print her searing novel about the late Jim Crow South.
Elizabeth Spencer (1921-2019) was a major figure of the Southern Renaissance, though today her many books and stories are scattered or out of print. This Library of America volume brings together the very best of her writing—three novels and nineteen stories—from a career spanning more than six decades.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598536867 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1598536869 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Spencer, Michael Gorra |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 850 |
| Release Date: | 17 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 568g |
| Dimensions: | 132mm x 207mm |
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Elizabeth Spencer
Elizabeth Spencer (1921-2019)
Elizabeth Spencer was the author of nine novels, eight collections of short stories, a memoir, and a play. She was a five-time recipient of the O. Henry Award and a two-time National Book Award finalist, and the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction. Spencer was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1985 and in 2009 received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters.
Michael Gorra
Michael Gorra is the Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English at Smith College, where he has taught since 1985. He is the author of The Bells in Their Silence: Travels through Germany, Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography), and The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War.
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