2004 Louisiana Writer Award Recipient

Shirley Ann GrauShirley Ann Grau
Novelist &
Short Story Writer

Personal Information
Awards
Career
Writings
Source Citation

  • Pulitzer Prize winner, 1965, for The Keepers of the House

Personal Information

Family:Born July 8, 1929, in New Orleans, LA; daughter of Adolph Eugene and Katherine (Onions) Grau; married James Kern Feibleman (a professor at Tulane University), August 4, 1955; children: Ian James, Nora Miranda, William Leopold, Katherine Sara.
Education: Tulane University, B.A. (with honors in English), 1950.
Politics: Democrat.
Religion: Unitarian Universalist.
Memberships: Authors Guild, Authors League of America, Phi Beta Kappa.
Addresses: Office: 210 Baranne St., Suite 1120, New Orleans, LA 70112.
Agent: Brandt & Brandt, 1501 Broadway, New York, NY 10036.

Awards

Pulitzer Prize, 1965, for The Keepers of the House; honorary doctorates from Rider College and Spring Hill College.

Career

Novelist and short story writer. Board member, St. Martin's Episcopal School, New Orleans, LA. Creative writing teacher, University of New Orleans, 1966-67.

Writings by the Author

Short Story Collections

  • The Black Prince and Other Stories, Knopf (New York City), 1955, reprinted in Three by Three: Masterworks of the Southern Gothic, introduction by Lewis P. Simpson, Peachtree Publications (Atlanta, GA), 1985.

  • The Wind Shifting West, Knopf, 1973.

  • Nine Women, Knopf, 1985..

Novels

  • The Hard Blue Sky, Knopf, 1958.

  • The House on Coliseum Street, Knopf, 1961, reprinted, Avon (New York City), 1986.

  • The Keepers of the House, Knopf, 1964.

  • The Condor Passes, Knopf, 1971.

  • Evidence of Love, Random House (New York City), 1977.

  • Roadwalkers, Knopf, 1994.

  • The Condor Passes, Transaction Publishers, 2000.

Other

  • (Author of foreword) George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days, New American Library (New York City), 1961.

  • (Author of introduction) Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek, Time (New York City), 1966.

Also contributor of stories and articles to journals and magazines, including Atlantic, New Yorker, Redbook, Mademoiselle, and Reporter.

Source Citation

Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2006. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006.
 http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC

 

Past Louisiana Writer Award Recipients

Yusef Komunyakaa
October 2007

Elmore Leonard
October 2006

Lewis P. Simpson
October 2005

Shirley Ann Grau
November 2004

Carl Brasseaux
November 2003

James Lee Burke
November 2002

William J. Smith
April 2001

Ernest J. Gaines
October 2000