Short Story Collections:

THE SOUTHERN WOMAN • 2001

THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA AND OTHER ITALIAN TALES (reprints) • 1996

ON THE GULF (reprints) • 1991

JACK OF DIAMONDS AND OTHER STORIES • 1988

MARILEE (reprints) • 1981

THE STORIES OF ELIZABETH SPENCER • 1981

SHIP ISLAND AND OTHER STORIES • 1968

Non-fiction:

LANDSCAPES OF THE HEART (memoir) • 1998

Drama:

FOR LEASE OR SALE • 1989

Interviews (collected from various publications):

CONVERSATIONS WITH ELIZABETH SPENCER • 1991

Awards:

Life-time Achievement Award of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, 2009

PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction • 2007

Governor's Award for Achievement in Literature from

the Mississippi Arts Commission • 2006

The William Faulkner Medal for Literary Excellence, awarded by The

Faulkner House Society, New Orleans • 2002

Inducted into the N.C. Hall of Fame • 2002

Thomas Wolfe Award for Literature given by UNC-Chapel Hill and

the Morgan Foundation • 2002

Cleanth Brooks Medal for achievement awarded by the Fellowship

of Southern Writers • 2001

Mississippi State Library Association Award for non-fiction • 1999

Fortner Award for Literature, St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, NC • 1998

Richard Wright Literary Excellence Award for fiction • 1997

J. William Corrington Award for fiction, Centenary College, Shreveport, LA • 1997

Charter Member Fellowship of Southern Writers • 1987; Vice-Chancellor, 1993-1997

North Carolina Governor's Award for Literature • 1994

John Dos Passos Award for Literature • 1992

Salem Award for Distinction in Letters, Salem College • 1992

National Endowment for the Arts Senior Fellowship in Literature Grant • 1988

Election to the American Institute (now American Academy) of Arts & Letters • 1985

Award of Merit Medal for the Short Story, American Academy • 1983

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship • 1983

Bellaman Award • 1968

Donnelly Fellowship, Bryn Mawr College • 1962

McGraw-Hill Fiction Fellowship • 1960

First Rosenthal Award, American Academy • 1957

Kenyon Review Fiction Fellowship • 1956-57

Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship • 1953

Recognition Award, American Academy of Arts & Letters • 1952

Memberships:

P.E.N., Author's Guild, Fellowship of Southern Writers (charter), American

Academy of Arts & Letters

Education:

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, MA • 1943

Belhaven College, Jackson, MS, AB • 1942

J.Z. George High School, Carrollton, MS • 1938

Employment:

Visiting professor of creative writing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill • 1986-92

Attached to the graduate writing program Concordia University, Montreal, Que.,

as writer-in-residence, then as adjunct professor • 1976-86

Instructor in English also creative writing University of Mississippi • 1948-51, 52-53

Reporter, Nashville Tennessean • 1945-46

Instructor in English, Ward-Belmont School, Nashville, TN • 1944-45

Instructor in English, Northwest Junior College, Senatobia, MS • 1943-44

Residencies:

Concordia University • 1977-78

Hollins College • 1972

University of NC • 1969

Bryn Mawr College • 1962

Criticism:

Elizabeth Spencer’s Complicated Cartographies by Catherine Seltzer, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

SELF AND COMMUNITY IN THE FICTION OF ELIZABETH SPENCER,

by Terry Roberts, LSU Press • 1993

ELIZABETH SPENCER, a book length critical study by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw,

Twayne Press • 1985

Numerous articles and reviews.

Translations:

Languages include French, Italian, Spanish, German, Belgian, Portuguese,

Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, Japanese, Polish, and Bengali

Media Adaptations:

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA, was produced in 1962. It

starred Olivia de Havilland, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton,

Rossano Brazzi and Barry Sullivan

A musical version of "The Light in the Piazza" was composed by Adam

Guettel, who also wrote the lyrics. The book was written by the playwright

Craig Lucas. The production was first seen at the Intiman Theatre in Seattle,

in June-July 2003, with Bartlett Sher as artistic director.

The production opened in New York in April 2005 at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont

Theatre. It received fine reviews, for the most part, and the run was extended

several times. It won six Tony Awards in 2006, including the award to Adam

Guettel for his music and to Victoria Clark for her performance in the leading role.

Following the close at Lincoln Center, the production went on a national tour and

ran into late July of 2007. It is now available for individual productions in other

locales and for presentations abroad.

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