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.
She said the family is not planning a funeral or memorial service for her. Grau won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for her fourth book The Keepers Of The House.
The book drew critical praise but also threatening phone calls for its depiction of a long romance between a wealthy white man and his black housekeeper in rural Alabama.
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