“all writing is taken from something known about or experienced as a base”: A Composite Interview with Elizabeth Spencer

When I met Elizabeth Spencer on May 4, 2006, I did not know it would be the beginning of a long-lasting friendship. This first meeting, which Ms. Spencer had planned carefully, inviting the renowned scholar Louis D. Rubin along, was one of many. The following interview reflects annual summer visits to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and ongoing exchanges with Ms. Spencer that took place between 2006 and 2019. *** Gérald Préher: How did you come to writing in the first place? Elizabeth Spencer: ..