Zona Gale

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Zona Gale

Zona Gale (born August 26, 1874 in Portage , Wisconsin , † December 27, 1938 in Chicago ) was an American writer and playwright who received the Pulitzer Prize for Theater in 1921 for her play Miss Lulu Bett , making it the first female Was the winner in this category.

biography

After attending the Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam , she studied literature at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and graduated in 1895 with a Bachelor (B.Lit.). A subsequent postgraduate course at this university she finished in 1899 with a Master of Arts (MA Literature).

A few years later, she devoted herself to writing and published in 1906 with Romance Iceland her debut novel . In the following period she published collections of short stories such as The Loves of Pelleas and Etarre (1907), Friendship Village (1908), Friendship Village Love Stories (1909), Mothers to Men (1911), When I Was a Little Girl (1913) , Neighborhood Stories (1914), Peace in Friendship Village (1919), The Neighbors (1920), Yellow Gentians and Blue (1927) and Old-Fashioned Tales (1933) also numerous other novels such as Christmas: A Story (1912), Heart's Kindred (1915), A Daughter of the Morning (1917), Birth (1918), The Novel of Tomorrow (1922), Faint Perfume (1923), Preface to Life (1926), Borgia (1929), Bridal Pond (1930) , Papa La Fleur (1933) and Light Woman (1937).

The anthology The Secret Way (1921) published a collection of her best-known poems such as The Bureau , Contours , The Dining Room , Half Thought , I Wandered Where the Wonder of the Sky , Last Night I Dreamed I Saw My Mother Young , Levitation , A. Meeting , Old Talk , One Dawn She Woke Me , Paradise and Purgatory , Return , The Secret Way and There Are Within Us Lives We Never Live . She also published a collection of essays entitled Portage, Wisconsin and Other Essays (1928).

She began writing dramas in the 1920s and received the Pulitzer Prize for Theater the following year for her first play Miss Lulu Bett (1920). In the following years Uncle Jimmy (1922), Mister Pitt (1924), Mr. Pitt (1925), The Clouds (1932), Evening Clothes (1932) and Faint Perfume (1934) appeared.

In addition to her literary work, she was a member of the board of directors of the University of Wisconsin between 1923 and 1929.

She last published the biography of the founder of the legendary Hotel Mission Inn in Riverside in 1938 under the title Frank Miller of Mission Inn . Her last novel Magna was published posthumously in 1939 .

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Individual evidence

  1. POEMS BY ZONA GALE