Shirley Ann Grau
Shirley Ann Grau ( * July 8, 1929 (according to other sources 1930) in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American writer who received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Keepers of the House in 1965.
Biography
After school she studied at Sophie Newcomb College of Tulane University and graduated in 1950.
Your literary debut, the mother of four children in 1955 with the Black Prince and Other Stories, a collection of short stories, which then with The Hard Blue Sky ( 1958) and The House on Coliseum Street ( Voices of the South ) ( 1961) was followed by two novels.
In 1964, the novel The Keepers of the House ( German Title: The Guardian of the House ), for which she claimed Harper Lee won the Pulitzer Prize for the novel as a second wife in 1965.
Followed in 1968 in German translation A girl from New Orleans ( en: " The House on Coliseum Street", 1961) and in 1971 with The Condor Passes Another novel The condor in a translation by Kurt Wagenseil was published in 1972 under the title in German language.
Then under the titles The Wind Shifting West ( 1973) and Nine Women (1985 ) further collections of short stories and two novels Evidence of Love ( 1977) and Walker Road Show ( 1994).
External links and sources
- Literature by and about Shirley Ann Grau in the catalog that German national library
- Shirley Ann Grau in the Notable Names Database (English)
- Biography ( eNotes.com )
- Biography ( biography.jrankorg )
- Biography ( Encyclopdia of Alabama )
- Biography (Alabama Literary Map)
- The World According to Gray (Metro Active Books, February / March 1998)