Elizabeth Savage (writer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Elizabeth Savage (writer)

American writers

Date of Birth: 15-Feb-1918

Place of Birth: Hingham, Montana, United States

Date of Death: 15-Jul-1989

Profession: novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Elizabeth Savage (née Fitzgerald; 15 February 1918 – 15 July 1989) was an American novelist and short-story writer.
In nine novels, she explored the turbulent decades between 1930 and 1980 in the Western United States and along the Atlantic Coast.
Her work focuses on men and women dealing with the Great Depression, World War II, the birth of the women’s movement, the Sixties counterculture and the Vietnam War.
Among her best-known books are The Last Night at the Ritz, the semi-autobiographical The Girls from the Five Great Valleys, Summer of Pride, But Not for Love, A Fall of Angels, and Happy Ending. Savage was married for 50 years to the equally celebrated novelist Thomas Savage, with whom she had three children.
In novels such as But Not For Love, she captures the stresses caused by class distinctions, economic differences and male/female relationships within groups of friends or extended families, whether the combatants live in Maine beach colonies, remote Idaho ranches or Montana college towns.
She also focuses on complex female friendships, stretching over many years.
A strong sense of place permeates all her work.
Three of Savage's novels illuminate the American West, where she spent much of her childhood.
Others are set in Maine, where she lived most of her adulthood.