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- Shirley Ann Grau (July 8, 1929 - August 3, 2020) was an American writer. She was born in New Orleans, and her work is set primarily in the Deep South and explores issues of race and gender. Her collection of stories, "The Black Prince," was nominated for the National Book Award in 1956. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1965 for her novel, "The Keepers of the House." She is recognized as an important writer in the fields of women's studies, feminist literature, and Southern literature.- IMDb Mini Biography By: anonymous
- SpouseJames K. Feibleman(? - 1987) (his death, 4 children)
- She returned to New Orleans to attend a Catholic high school for girls, and enrolled at Newcomb College, a women's school affiliated with Tulane University. She received a bachelor's degree in English, started writing short stories, and studied for a doctorate at Tulane, until the department head said that women could not be teaching assistants.
- She grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, where she studied ancient Greek and Latin. She spent her weekends searching for rare plants with her grandfather, an amateur botanist.
- No novel is really a regional novel. A novel has to be set somewhere. ... I would like once in my life to have something I write taken as fiction, not as Southern sociology. [her response to being referred to as a "Southern writer"]
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