Ellen Glasgow

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Portrait of Ellen Glasgow, around 1902

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

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.library.vcu.edu
  2. ^ Members: Ellen Glasgow. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 31, 2019 .
  3. ^ Everett Bleiler: The Checklist of Fantastic Literature . Shasta Publishers, Chicago 1948, p. 127.
  4. ^ Richard Meeker: The Collected Stories of Ellen Glasgow . Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge 1963.
personal data
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