The Southern Woman
Subtitle: Selected Fiction
Edition: 2020 Modern Library trade paperback edition.
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2021
Place of publication: New York
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780593241189
Copyright date: 2001
Description: Over the course of a fifty-year career, Elizabeth Spencer wrote masterly, lyrical fiction about southerners. An outstanding storyteller who was unjustly denied a Pulitzer for her anti-racist novel The Voice at the Back Door despite being the unanimous choice of the judges, she is recognized as one of the most accomplished writers of short fiction, infusing her work with elegant precision and empathy. 

The Southern Woman collects the best of Spencer’s short stories, displaying her range of place—the agrarian South, Italy in the decade after World War II, the gray-sky North, and, finally, the contemporary Sun Belt.