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The Condor Passes
I Southern writer who manages in her fiction to combine realism and symbolism with a touch of the poet, Shirley Ann Grau has been regarded as an author of considerable talent and brilliance since the publication of her first book of stories in 1955. The characters in the following story will appear in the new novel on which she is working, but the story is not a part of that novel.
The Man Below
New Orleans is home to SHIRLEY ANN GRAU; her two grandmothers were of mixed French and Spanish blood; and to this colorful background she naturally returns for the source material for her novels and short stories. Alfred A. Knopf published her first book, THE BLACK PRINCE, in 1955 when she was just twentyjive years old, and since then editors and readers hare regarded her as a writer to watch. The best of her work has been reprinted in the O. Henry and Martha Foley collections. She has just fin ished a new novel.