Awards & Winners

Elizabeth Spencer

Date of Birth 19-July-1921
Place of Birth Carrollton
(Carroll County, Mississippi, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Writer, Novelist
Elizabeth Spencer is an American writer. Spencer's first novel, Fire in the Morning, was published in 1948. She has written a total of nine novels, seven collections of short stories, a memoir, and a play. Her novella The Light in the Piazza was adapted for the screen in 1962 and transformed into a Broadway musical of the same name in 2005. She is a five-time recipient of the O. Henry Award for short fiction.

Awards by Elizabeth Spencer

Check all the awards nominated and won by Elizabeth Spencer.

1961


Nominations 1961 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction The Light in the Piazza

1957


Nominations 1957 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction The Voice at the Back Door