Odell Shepard
Odell Shepard (July 22, 1884 in Sterling, Illinois – July 19, 1967 in New London, Connecticut) was an American professor, poet, and politician who was the 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1941 to 1943.[1] He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938.[2]
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Life
Shepard was born in Illinois. He graduated from Harvard University, and taught at the English department of Yale University. A professor of English at Trinity College in 1917-1946,[3] he was a mentor to Abbie Huston Evans.[4] He edited the works of Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Shepard wrote a biography of Bronson Alcott, the father of writer Louisa May Alcott and one of the foremost Transcendentalists: Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott, published by Little, Brown in 1937,[5] for which he won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.[2]
His papers are held at Trinity College.[3]
He died in 1967.
Awards
- 1938 Pulitzer Prize for his Pedlar's Progress: The life of Bronson Alcott, (Little, Brown and Company)[2]
- Golden Rose Award
Works
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Biography
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Coauthor
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References
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- Works by Odell Shepard at Project Gutenberg
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- Works by Odell Shepard at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Odell Shepard at Library of Congress Authorities, with 39 catalog records
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Biography or Autobiography". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-01.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/News_Events/reporter/fall06/archival.htm
- ↑ http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/evans.htm
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