Pulitzer Prize-winning author Shirley Ann Grau dies aged 91

Obit Shirley Ann Grau

Shirley Ann Grau, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose stories and novels told of both the dark secrets and beauty of the Deep South, has died at the age of 91.

Her daughter Nora McAlister said on Wednesday that Grau died on Monday in a memory care facility of complications from a stroke.