Shirley Ann Grau

Gerald Preher

Ed. by Nick Selby, University of East Anglia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 8 Jul 1929
Activity 1955-ongoing

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Story-writer

Resources

Shirley Ann Grau is an extremely private person and she believes, like other writers, that one should not read her fiction in relation to her life. She will therefore gladly discuss her novels and inspirations but will not, or very reluctantly, be self-reflexive: “I am not the least introspective. I am not the least interested in ME. Only in the life around me” (personal correspondence).

Grau was born on July 9, 1929 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She has written six novels and three collections of short stories that mainly take place in the American South even though she tried to broaden her perspective by dealing with the northern states she knows best. The places she spent time in during her childhood and especially those i…

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Citation: Preher, Gerald. "Shirley Ann Grau". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 12 May 2009 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1842, accessed 31 October 2024.]

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