Awards & Winners

Shirley Ann Grau

Date of Birth 08-July-1929
Place of Birth New Orleans
(Louisiana, United States of America, Area code 504)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Writer, Novelist
Shirley Ann Grau Born in New Orleans, her work is set primarily in the Deep South, and explores issues of race and gender. She spent much of her childhood in rural Alabama with her mother. She graduated in 1950 from Newcomb College of Tulane University. Her 1964 saga The Keepers of the House was awarded the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Awards by Shirley Ann Grau

Check all the awards nominated and won by Shirley Ann Grau.

1965


Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Honored for : The Keepers of the House

1956


Nominations 1956 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction The black prince and other stories