<div>A &ldquo;beautifully written&rdquo; Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning novel about prejudice and a distinguished family&rsquo;s secrets in the American South (The Atlantic Monthly). Seven generations of the Howland family have lived in the Alabama plantation home built by an ancestor who fought for Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812. Over the course of a century, the Howlands accumulated a fortune, fought for secession, and helped rebuild the South, establishing themselves as one of the most respected families in the state. But that history means little to Abigail Howland. The inheritor of the Howland manse, Abigail hides the long-buried secret of her grandfather&rsquo;s thirty-year relationship with his African American mistress. Her fortunes reverse when her family&rsquo;s mixed-race heritage comes to light and her community&mdash;locked in the prejudices of the 1960s&mdash;turns its back on her. Faced with such deep-seated racism, Abigail is pushed to defend her family at all costs. A &ldquo;novel of real magnitude,&rdquo; The Keepers of the House is an unforgettable story of family, tradition, and racial injustice set against the richly drawn backdrop of the American South (Kirkus Reviews). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Shirley Ann Grau, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

The Keepers of the House

<div>A &ldquo;luminescent&rdquo; collection of stories about nine Southern women from the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author of The Keepers of the House (The New York Times). The nine namesake women of this collection come from widely disparate worlds, from isolated bayou towns to New Orleans high society. All, however, struggle with grief, longing, and hope. In &ldquo;Widows Walk,&rdquo; Myra Rowland tries to make sense of life after the death of her husband. &ldquo;In the Beginning&rdquo; depicts a daughter trying to understand her own mother&rsquo;s determination to raise her up from abject poverty. &ldquo;Ending,&rdquo; meanwhile, tells of a couple whose union dissolves just as their daughter marries. In many cases, these protagonists are struggling to accept the sudden loss of life and love in a land teeming with both. In this unforgettable volume, one of America&rsquo;s most masterful storytellers writes with an eye for the female experience and the teeming diversity of life in the Deep South. &ldquo;Grau&rsquo;s tremendous powers of description, ability to conjure atmosphere, and impeccable prose elevate her to the top tier of American short story stylists&rdquo; (Booklist). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Shirley Ann Grau, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

Nine Women

<div>From the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning novelist: A family saga of a wealthy man&rsquo;s rise and his children&rsquo;s fight for his fortune in 1920s New Orleans. Like many people in turn-of-the-twentieth-century New Orleans, Thomas Henry Oliver came to the city to escape a dull life&mdash;in his case, a childhood in the backwoods of the Midwest. But few New Orleans immigrants find as much prosperity as Oliver does amongst the city&rsquo;s lively streets, amassing an enormous fortune built from brothels and speakeasies. By the time he&rsquo;s ninety-five, Oliver has created a dynasty in Storyville, the city&rsquo;s notorious red-light district, but as his wealth grows, so does his family&rsquo;s desire to control it. After a series of strokes, Oliver must choose an inheritor, even though his two entitled daughters and ambitious adopted son don&rsquo;t always seem worthy of his legacy. His first daughter, an introverted perfectionist, marries a greedy, alcoholic, and adulterous Cajun, and his second daughter fosters a secret desire for her brother-in-law. On his deathbed, Thomas learns that the gold that built the Oliver name now corrupts his legacy and threatens to tear his family apart. In this simmering dynastic saga by the author of Keepers of the House, three generations collide in their battle to control an empire. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Shirley Ann Grau, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

The Condor Passes

<div>A provocative novel of a New Orleans woman&rsquo;s heartbreaking decision, by the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author of The Keepers of the House. Joan Mitchell has two suitors, and can&rsquo;t decide whom to marry. A witness to her mother Aurelie&rsquo;s less than successful romantic history, she&rsquo;d like to skip marriage altogether. Joan and Aurelie live together in a beautiful French Quarter home on Coliseum Street in New Orleans, along with Joan&rsquo;s many half-sisters born of Aurelie&rsquo;s five disastrous marriages. Joan lives a mostly carefree life, but when she becomes pregnant, she chooses to end her pregnancy rather than marry a man she doesn&rsquo;t love&mdash;a decision with grave consequences in conservative 1950s New Orleans. The second novel by a National Book Award finalist and one of the most acclaimed voices of the American South, The House on Coliseum Street is a brave, heartbreaking love letter to New Orleans and &ldquo;a sad, wistful, young, timeless story, graced by [Shirley Ann Grau&rsquo;s] fine drawn perceptions . . . and by the still, soft enchantment of her prose&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Shirley Ann Grau, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

The House on Coliseum Street

<div>&ldquo;An arresting and beautifully written novel&rdquo; about a young woman who yearns to escape her life in Louisiana, by a Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author (The New York Times). 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 the Gulf waters. Such is the fate of Al Landry and his seventeen-year-old daughter, Annie. All Annie has ever known is the wild sea, but she longs for other people and places, including the glamor of life in the Big Easy. When a cruel, handsome sailing boat pilot from the city passes through, he kindles Annie&rsquo;s fantasies for a life beyond the island. Soon, the young girl faces a decision: remain planted in the predictable life she has always known, or toss it all aside for her dreamed-of adventure. Elsewhere on the island, eighteen-year-old Henry Livaudais disappears on a hunting expedition, sparking a feud with a neighboring settlement of Yugoslavian oystermen. As the summer heat intensifies, his father tries to discover why Henry left the isolated fishing settlement. By the author of The Keepers of the House, this novel follows two teenagers on the cusp of adulthood as they look for an escape from their Southern homes. The National Book Award&ndash;shortlisted author establishes herself as the master chronicler of bayou life in this debut novel that captures the complexities of the Deep South&rsquo;s most impoverished corners. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Shirley Ann Grau, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

The Hard Blue Sky

<div>From the author of The Keepers of the House, a &ldquo;beautiful&rdquo; novel following a black mother and daughter through the Great Depression and Civil Rights era (The Boston Globe). Mary is an orphaned, homeless, African American child, abandoned by the rest of her family and left to care for her younger brother. She becomes a &ldquo;roadwalker,&rdquo; a nomad who wanders across the rural south and quickly learns to rely on herself to survive. When she grows up to become a successful artist and a designer, she has a daughter of her own, Nanda, and she&rsquo;s determined to hold her child close. But when Nanda is accepted into an elite school on the East Coast, integrating the all-white Catholic girls&rsquo; academy, Mary finds she can&rsquo;t keep some of the world&rsquo;s cruel realities at bay forever. Told from the perspective of both mother and daughter, Roadwalkers is the story of a special bond forged by savage history, and a tale of extraordinary loyalty and sacrifice. From a National Book Award finalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, it is &ldquo;a bold novel [that] seduces us with its vigorous prose, enthralls us with its narrative&mdash;and disquiets us with its defiance of our expectations&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Shirley Ann Grau, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Roadwalkers

<div>National Book Award Finalist: A stunning collection of Southern short fiction by the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author of The Keepers of the House. A family hides its poverty behind a fa&ccedil;ade of gentility. A mysterious stranger sows discord in a backwoods hamlet. A man leaves prison only to be drawn back into the darkness of his past. A young bride faces the choice of informing on her husband and his family or enduring a lifetime of deceit. These nine stories by Pulitzer Prize winner Shirley Ann Grau traverse the landscape of the American South, from New Orleans to the Louisiana bayou to the pine woods of Alabama, but their true territory is universal: the mysteries of the human heart. A dazzling portrait of the lovers and the criminals, the rich and the outcasts of the Deep South, these tales of passion, conflict, and destiny come from &ldquo;a born writer if ever there was one . . . One reads these haunting, strikingly original stories with pleasure and excitement, enthralled by their power, amused by their melancholy irony&rdquo; (The New York Times). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Shirley Ann Grau, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

Shirley Ann Grau

Books By Shirley Ann Grau (7 Books)

The Keepers of the House

Nine Women

The Condor Passes

The House on Coliseum Street

The Hard Blue Sky

Roadwalkers

The Black Prince

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