Author Elizabeth Spencer, a grande dame of Southern literature whose 'Light in the Piazza' was adapted into an acclaimed Broadway musical, has died.
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.
“In a small town that’s been there for ages, some people look out and some look in,” she wrote. “As for myself, I mainly just looked around me.”Her most famous work, “Light in the Piazza,” is the story of a North Carolina woman in Florence who watches and worries as her mentally impaired daughter falls in love with an Italian.
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