Shirley Ann Grau was born 8 July 1929 in New Orleans to Adolph Eugene and Katherine (Onions) Grau. Her paternal grandfather came to this country from Prussia before the Civil War; the ancestry on her ...
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In her 1983 Flora Levy Lecture in the Humanities at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, Shirley Ann Grau commented, "A writer is an evangelist whose preaching is subtle and utterly disguised--of...
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In the following review of The Condor Passes, Gardner raises questions about Grau's style and fictional depictions of the American South.
When is a cliché not quite a cliché? When...
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In the following review, Levinson outlines the plot of Roadwalkers and comments on the novel's successes and failures.
With Roadwalkers, Shirley Ann Grau has written a distinctly unfashionable ...
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In the following review, Max presents a detailed synopsis of Roadwalkers, while placing the novel in the larger context of Grau's oeuvre.
Pulitzer Prize-winner Shirley Ann Grau's ninth w...
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In the following review, Rubin discusses the features of Grau's style and craftsmanship in Roadwalkers.
Roadwalkers is Shirley Ann Grau's ninth book. Her first, The Black Prince and Othe...
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In the following review of Roadwalkers, Bryant describes Grau's skill in evoking the narrator's viewpoint.
Time is an indeterminate factor in this new novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning aut...
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In the following essay, Richardson looks at the context of critical commentary on Grau and lists some observations of his own about Grau's fiction.
Shirley Ann Grau's connections to New ...
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In the following review, the critic identifies praiseworthy qualities in Evidence of Love.
Three of the sections of Grau's new novel [Evidence of Love] are written in the first person by two me...
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In the following essay, Rohrberger explores the psychological world of Grau's characters.
Evidence of Love, Shirley Ann Grau's fifth novel, is told through the viewpoint of three charact...
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In the following essay, Rohrberger provides a detailed assessment of Grau's skills as a short story writer and identifies thematic threads in the writer's work.
The problem with Shirley ...
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The following review provides a brief account of the characters and situations in the stories collected in Nine Women.
[Nine Women] is Shirley Ann Grau's second collection of stories, offering ...
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In the following excerpt, Rich offers descriptions of the stories in Nine Women, and comments on Grau's treatment of themes.
After poetry, short fiction is the most exacting form of literature....
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In the following interview, Grau and Canfield discuss the author's handling of Southern setting and theme, as well as exploring ideas about the craft of fiction.
The publication of her first bo...
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In the following essay, Bukoski demonstrates how Grau uses “the house” as the center and substance of many of her works.
In Shirley Ann Grau's fiction, houses provide a loci for t...
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In the following essay, Wagner-Martin examines several facets of Grau's work, identifying southern themes, feminist undercurrents and stylistic habits.
As every reviewer of Shirley Ann Grau�...
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Shirley Ann Grau
