Shirley Ann Grau - World Literary Awards

プロフィール

性別: 女性
生誕: 1929-07-08 （New Orleans）
死没: 2020-08-03 （Kenner, Louisiana） 91歳
国籍: American
言語: English
居住地歴: New Orleans, Louisiana → Montgomery, Alabama → Selma, Alabama → Metairie, Louisiana → Kenner, Louisiana

経歴

職業: Writer
活動期間: 1955年〜2006年
ノミネート: National Book Award for Fiction nomination, 1956, The Black Prince

学歴

学校	学部	学科	学位	期間	国
Newcomb College (Tulane University)	—	—	B.A.	—	United States

Newcomb College (Tulane University)

学位: B.A.

卒業年: 1950

国: United States

Phi Beta Kappa

受賞歴

年	賞名	対象作品	部門	主催	結果
1965	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction	The Keepers of the House	—	Columbia University	受賞

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

1965

対象作品: The Keepers of the House

主催: Columbia University

結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

Pulitzer Prize 1回登壇

第49回（1965年） Winner

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1回登壇

第1回（1965年） Winner

作品

代表作

The Keepers of the House

1964年 Novel

Set in a fictional Alabama town, it deals with an interracial marriage that was illegal and the implications of the mixed-race children later passing as white.

racegenderSouthern society

全著作

The Black Prince, and Other Stories (1955)
The Hard Blue Sky (1958)
The House on Coliseum Street (1961)
The Keepers of the House (1964)
The Condor Passes (1971)
The Wind Shifting West (1973)
Evidence of Love (1977)
Nine Women (1986)
Roadwalkers (1994)
Selected Stories (2006)

作風・主題

文体: Southern literature stylefeminist literaturenarrative from women's perspectives
頻出モチーフ: deathdestructionabortionmiscegenationrace issues

健康

stroke

晩年

Complications led to death at age 91

評価・遺産

Recognized as an important writer in Southern literature, women's studies, feminist literature, and Southern literature, Pulitzer Prize winner.

引用

'Yeah and I'm the Queen of England too,' and I hung up on him.

出典: Pulitzer Prize anecdote (1965年)

豆知識

She mistook the Pulitzer Prize call for a prank and hung up on the caller.
Married to philosopher James Feibleman.
Had four children.