Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (born April 22, 1873 in Richmond , Virginia , † November 21, 1945 there ) was an American writer .
life and work
From 1897 she wrote 20 novels and numerous short stories, in which she often describes life in Virginia. Glasgow had a lifelong friendship with the writer James Branch Cabell . In 1940 she was awarded the William Dean Howells Medal for her complete work by the American Academy of Arts and Letters , of which she had been a member since 1932 . In 1942 she received the Pulitzer Prize for the novel In This Our Life . After her death, Glasgow was buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.
Works
Novels
- The Descendant (1897)
- Phases of an Inferior Planet (1898)
- The Voice of the People (1900)
- The Battle Ground (1902)
- The Deliverance (1904)
- The Wheel of Life (1906)
- The Romance of a Plain Man (1909)
- Virginia (1913)
- The Builders (1919)
- The Past (1920)
- One Man In His Time (1922)
- Barren Ground (1925)
- The Romantic Comedians (1926)
- They Stooped to Folly (1929)
- The Sheltered Life (1932)
- Vein of Iron (1935)
- In This Our Life (1941) (Pulitzer Prize 1942): In German: So ist das Leben , translated by Karl and Maria Bamberger, Humboldt Verlag, Vienna 1948
Anthologies
- The Shadowy Third, and Other Stories (1923)
- The Collected Stories of Ellen Glasgow (12 short stories (pp. 24–253), with an introduction by the editor (pp. 3–23))
Editions in German translation
- Save me not (They stooped to folly), translated by Susanne Schalit, Paul Zsolnay, Berlin, Vienna, Leipzig, 1930
Film adaptations
- 1942: In this our life - directed by John Huston
Web links
- Works by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow in Project Gutenberg ( currently not available to users from Germany )
- Photos of the first edition of the novel In This Our Life (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography of James Branch Cabell ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.library.vcu.edu
- ^ Members: Ellen Glasgow. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 31, 2019 .
- ^ Everett Bleiler: The Checklist of Fantastic Literature . Shasta Publishers, Chicago 1948, p. 127.
- ^ Richard Meeker: The Collected Stories of Ellen Glasgow . Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge 1963.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Glasgow, Ellen |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1873 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Richmond , Virginia |
DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1945 |
Place of death | Richmond , Virginia |