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Ellen Douglas

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Elizabeth Spencer papers, 1911-2018 (bulk 1999-2003)

Spencer, Elizabeth, 1921-2019 · 1911

The novelist Elizabeth Spencer, 1921 to 2019, left papers spanning 1911 to 2018 with the bulk from 1999 to 2003. Subjects include many American writers, among them Eudora Welty, Walker Percy, Ellen Douglas, Lee Smith and Allan Gurganus, and they cover her Mississippi upbringing at Carrollton and her years on the faculty at Chapel Hill. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5145.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Douglas, Ellen, 1921-2012.

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