Zona Gale
Zona Gale ( born August 26, 1874 in Portage, Wisconsin, † December 27, 1938 in Chicago) was an American writer and playwright, in 1921 for her play Miss Lulu bed the Pulitzer Prize for drama and was thus the first female winner in this category was.
Biography
After visiting the Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, she studied literature at the University of Wisconsin -Madison and graduated in 1895 with a Bachelor ( B.Lit. ) From. A subsequent post-graduate studies at the same university, she finished 1899 with a Master of Arts (MA Literature).
A few years later, she devoted herself to writing and published in 1906 with her debut novel Romance Iceland. In the following years, she released next short story collections 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), numerous other novels like 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).
In the anthology The Secret Way ( 1921) 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 appeared Meeting, Old Talk, One Dawn She Woke Me, Paradise and Purgatory, Return, The Secret Way, There Are Within Us Lives We Never Live. Besides appeared from her a collection of essays under the title of Portage, Wisconsin and Other Essays (1928 ).
In the 1920s, she began writing plays and was the same for her first play Miss Lulu bed ( 1920) in the following year the Pulitzer Prize for drama. In the aftermath appeared Uncle Jimmy (1922 ), Mr. Pitt ( 1924), Mr. Pitt ( 1925), The Clouds (1932 ), Evening Clothes (1932 ) and Faint Perfume ( 1934).
In addition to her literary career she belonged 1923-1929 on the board of the University of Wisconsin.
Her most recent publication in 1938 under the title of Frank Miller of the Mission Inn biography of the founder of the legendary Hotels Mission Inn in Riverside. Her latest novel Magna published in 1939 posthumously.