![]() ![]() “As for myself, I mainly just looked around me.” “In a small town that’s been there for ages, some people look out and some look in,” she wrote. Like William Faulkner, her predecessor and fellow Mississippian, she was an author praised by strangers and shunned by acquaintances. her determination to honor them and to leave them behind. Old enough to know ex-slaves and Civil War veterans, Spencer chronicled her complicated affection for her ties to tiny Carrollton, Miss. Spencer, who sometimes went by her married name, Elizabeth Rusher, died Sunday night in Chapel Hill, N.C., according to playwright Craig Lucas, who adapted “The Light in the Piazza” for the stage. Elizabeth Spencer, a grande dame of Southern literature who bravely navigated between the Jim Crow past and open-ended present in her novels and stories, including the celebrated novella “The Light in the Piazza,” has died at 98. ![]()
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