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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1954
  • Latest Book:
    September 2017
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Book List in Order: 11 titles



  • Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collecti...



  • West of New Orleans among a few small Gulf islands lies the Isle aux Chiens, a tiny, impoverished strip of land burdened by intolerable heat and roaming packs of wild dogs. Here a handful of Creole families eke out a meager existence by fishing th...



  • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, The Keepers of the House is Shirley Ann Grau’s masterwork, a many-layered indictment of racism and rage that is as terrifying as it is wise.

    Entrenched on the same land since the early 1800s, the How...







  • A “luminescent” collection of stories about nine Southern women from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Keepers of the House (The New York Times). The nine namesake women of this collection come from widely disparate worlds, f...



  • Twenty-year-old Joan Mitchell has lived her entire life in the stately New Orleans house on Coliseum Street, where her mother and half sister have steadily undermined her self-regard. To Joan, her fate seems sealed and strangely inconsequential. Then...



  • Chronicles the lives and fortunes of two extraordinary black women--Baby and her daughter, Nanda--as they struggle to make places for themselves in the South, from the Depression to the era of the civil rights movement. By the author of The Keepe...



  • This magnificent summation of the short stories of Shirley Ann Grau, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Keepers of the House, gathers together eighteen gems ranking with the finest of Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. Grau possesses ...






  • National Book Award Finalist: A stunning collection of Southern short fiction by the Pulitzer Prizeā€"winning author of The Keepers of the House. A family hides its poverty behind a faƧade of gentility. A mysterious stranger sows discord in a backw...



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    Grau''s riveting story of one man''s rise to power in New Orleans - and the mystery, joy, sorrow, love, and death that shape his extraordinary life

    Like many people in turn-of-the-20th-century New Orleans, Thomas Henry Oliver came to the ci...


Award-Winning Books by Shirley Ann Grau

The Keepers of the House
1965 Pulitzer Prize -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Shirley Ann Grau has published 11 books.

Shirley Ann Grau does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Black Prince, was published in September 2017.

The first book by Shirley Ann Grau, Black Prince and Other Stories, was published in June 1954.

No. Shirley Ann Grau does not write books in series.