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Elizabeth Spencer

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The Resume

    (July 19, 1921-December 22, 2019)
    Born in Carrollton, Mississippi
    Author of 'Fire in the Morning' (1948), 'This Crooked Way' (1952), 'The Voice at the Back Door' (1956), 'The Light in the Piazza' (1960), 'Knights and Dragons' (1965), 'No Place for an Angel' (1967), 'The Snare' (1972), 'The Salt Line' (1984), and 'The Night Travellers' (1991)
    Awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1953)
    Wrote the memoir 'Landscapes of the Heart' (1998)

Why she might be annoying:

    She had no children.
    She spoke with a Mississippi drawl her whole life.
    She grew up in a racially segregated town of 500.
    She's a Southern writer, even though her name sounds like she could be a character on Downton Abbey or The Crown.
    She claimed that being pigeonholed as a 'Southern woman writer' stalled out her career temporarily after her first three books.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She is second cousin to John McCain.
    She was valedictorian of her high school class.
    She was lifelong friends with Eudora Welty.
    She was a five-time recipient of the O. Henry Award for short fiction.
    She wrote seven collections of short stories and one play ('For Lease or Sale,' in 1989).
    'The Voice at the Back Door' was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1957, but the prize ultimately wasn't awarded that year.
    Her work examined racism, classism, spousal abuse, and familial prejudice.
    Her book 'The Light in the Piazza' was adapted into a film in 1962 with <3128>Olivia de Havilland,<3128> and later was made into a Broadway musical in 2005.

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    In 2023, Out of 6 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
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