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: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), 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 (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 8 Jul 1929
Died 2020 Aug 3
Activity 1955-ongoing

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

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Novelist
Story-writer

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Shirley Ann Grau was an extremely private person and who believed, like other writers, that one should not read her fiction in relation to her life. She therefore gladly discussed her novels and inspirations but was not, or very reluctantly, 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 9 July 1929 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She wrote 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 knew best. The places she spent time in during her childhood and especially those in the state of Alabama, where she was partly educated, bear a special

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Citation: Preher, Gerald. "Shirley Ann Grau". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 12 May 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1842, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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