Shirley Ann Grau, a Louisiana writer whose atmospheric, richly detailed works explored issues of race, gender and power, notably in the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Keepers of the House,” died Aug. 3 at a senior-living center in Kenner, a New Orleans suburb. She was 91.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Shirley Ann Grau, a ‘quiet force’ in Southern literature, dies at 91
August 4, 2020 at 10:14 p.m. EDT