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Born in 1929 in New Orleans, Shirley Grau grew up in an integrated
neighborhood in uptown
New
Orleans, and spent a lot of time in her mother’s rural
Alabama.
She attended the Sophie Newcomb College — Tulane's women's division with
plans to pursue a writing career. Soon after graduation in 1950, she
began publishing her fiction.
In
1955, she published her first series of short stories ,
Black Prince and Other Stories.
In 1958, she published
The Hard Blue Sky, then
The House on Coliseum Street (Voices of the South),
published in
1961, and in 1964 her best loved and most well-known novel,
The Keepers of the House won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1965. She
went on to write
Black Prince and Other Stories in 1973, and
Evidence of Love in 1977.
As
with all Grau novels, her pulitzer prize winning novel,
The Keepers of the House takes place in a fictitious Southern
county, and is both a personal and political story. Since 1977 Grau has
only published one novel,
Nine Women which came out in 1985.
She lives in New Orleans,
Louisiana and on Martha's Vineyard with her four
children.
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