About the Author

Elizabeth Spencer lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and has written eight other novels, including The Light in the Piazza, The Snare, The Salt Line and The Night Travellers. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.

Reviews

"[Spencer's] finest work to date.... Technically brilliant... artistically persuasive." -- New York Times"Spencer has written a powerful, moving and true novel of the modern South, a novel that will contribute much pleasure and understanding." -- New York Times Book Review"No two ways about it -- The Voice at the Back Door is a practically perfect novel." -- The New Yorker