Elsa M. Spencer was born in Trieste, Northern Italy. She was educated in Trieste and frequented the Magistrali, a school for teachers. She traveled to Africa with her engineer fath...view moreElsa M. Spencer was born in Trieste, Northern Italy. She was educated in Trieste and frequented the Magistrali, a school for teachers. She traveled to Africa with her engineer father and lived almost two years in Tripoli, Libya, where she learned Arabic. With her soldier husband, she traveled a lot over the USA, Hawaii, and Europe.
She wrote Good-bye, Trieste, a memoir of a fascist childhood, a warning to socialism, and by herself, she visited China and Brazil.
She belongs to Rosemary Daniell’s well-known writers’ workshop, Zona Rosa, of Savannah, Georgia.
HER FIRST BOOK, GOOD-BYE-TRIESTE, WAS RECOMMENDED FOR MOTION PICTURE BY THE HOLLYWOOD READERS, AS AN EXCELLENT CONCEPT OF WWII MEMOIRE. IMPRESSIVE MATERIAL AND WONDERFULLY EXPRESSIVE,view less