![]() ![]() ![]() 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. "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 would write. Like her predecessor and fellow Mississippian, William Faulkner, she was an author praised by strangers and shunned by acquaintances. Old enough to know ex-slaves and Civil War veterans, Spencer chronicled her complicated affection for her ties to tiny Carrollton, Mississippi - her determination to honor them and to leave them behind. Spencer, who sometimes went by her married name Elizabeth Rusher, died Sunday night in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, according to playwright Craig Lucas, who adapted “Light In the Piazza” for the stage. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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