Afterword: Elizabeth Spencer: Mississippi Literary Trail Marker

CARROLLTON, MISSISSIPPI, OCTOBER 5, 2019 I was pleased recently to participate in a special occasion that honored Elizabeth Spencer’s major contribution to the literary legacy of Mississippi and to the national achievement in letters. She is a daughter of Carrollton, Mississippi, and one can say she has carried Carrollton in her imagination throughout her life. The early novels, Fire in the Morning and This Crooked Way, had southern settings that Spencer knew well, the South of her childhood ..