What is Shirley Ann Grau?
{{Infobox writer | name = Shirley Ann Grau | image = Shirley Ann Grau LCCN97503400.jpg | birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|7|8}} | birth_place = [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]], U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2020|8|3|1929|7|8}} | death_place = [[Kenner, Louisiana|Kenner]], Louisiana, U.S. | yearsactive = 1955–2006 }} '''Shirley Ann Grau''' (July 8, 1929 – August 3, 2020) was an American writer. She was born in [[New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orleans]].<ref name=backing>{{cite news |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-299614.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105074336/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-299614.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-11-05 |first=Doug |last=Simpson| title=Shirley Ann Grau, Never Backing Down |access-date=2011-01-08 |date=2003-12-26 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref> Her work is set mainly in the [[Deep South]] and talks about issues of race and gender. Her 1964 work ''[[The Keepers of the House]]'' was awarded the 1965 [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]].<ref name=pulitzer>{{cite news |title=Pulitzer Winner Writes Between Domestic Crises |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-CBlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GIgNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1046,594981&dq=shirley+ann+grau+pulitzer&hl=en |newspaper=[[Edmonton Journal]] |page=13 |date=1965-07-05 |access-date=2011-01-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/02.26.98/cover/lit-grau-9808.html|last= Allen-Taylor|first= J. Douglas |title=The World According To Grau|newspaper=Metro Newspaper|location= San Jose, California |date=February 26, 1998}}</ref> She was an important [[feminist]] writer who talked about [[abortion]], [[death]] and [[misogyny]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Shirley Ann Grau - Know Louisiana |url=http://www.knowlouisiana.org/entry/shirley-ann-grau-2 |website=Know Louisiana |access-date=July 4, 2017 |archive-date=July 29, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729013413/http://www.knowlouisiana.org/entry/shirley-ann-grau-2 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Grau died on August 3, 2020 in [[Kenn