biography
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Spencer, Elizabeth
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married name Rushers
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1921– )
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Carrollton, Mississippi, USA. She studied at Belhaven College (1942 BA) and Vanderbilt (1943 MA), then lived in Italy (1953–8), married there (19560, and became a writer of novels and short stories. Her early novels are based in the rural South, and several others are set in Italy, as in The Light in the Piazza (1960), but whatever the setting, her works tend to deal with expatriates and outsiders. She taught writing at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (1976–86) and at the University of North Carolina (1986). |
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