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The three Marilee stories are
reprinted from the collection, The Stories
of Elizabeth Spencer. The year it came
out, I got a call from the University Press
of Mississippi suggesting such a small collection.
The stories started as a voice which came
to me out of nowhere when I was living
in Montreal. It was a sweet, lyrical, honest,
persuasive voice. I let it tell me the stories.
The first was “A Southern Landscape,” which
was published in The New Yorker, as was
also “Sharon.” “Indian Summer” was in the
Southern Review. Marilee Summerall thus
goes on and on. I am convinced that she is
still living somewhere, still talking. The picture
chosen for the cover is of Windsor, a pre-Civil
War mansion, now burned down to a group of
handsome columns. Windsor figures in the stories.
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