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Novelist Elizabeth Spencer moved to Chapel Hill in 1986, taught as a visiting writer in UNC's Creative Writing Program from 1986 to 1992, and died at her Chapel Hill home in 2019. UNC's English department gave her its Thomas Wolfe Prize in 2002. Her best-known fiction is The Light in the Piazza (1960).
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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.
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