Gale, Zona, 1874-1938

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Dates:
Birth 1874-08-26
Death 1938-12-27

Biographical notes:

Zona Gale was a prominent writer and political activist born in Portage, Wisconsin. Gale attended the University of Wisconsin and worked as a reporter in Milwaukee. Gale, a lifelong friend of Jane Addams, became involved in the fight for the women's vote and eventually went to work for the writer Edmund Clarence Stedman. Her novel, "Miss Lulu Bett" was successfully adapted for the theater.

From the description of Correspondence, 1907-1929. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122525953

American novelist, short story writer, dramatist, and poet; wrote about small town life.

From the description of Papers of Zona Gale, 1914-1937. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 34689933

From the description of Papers of Zona Gale [manuscript], 1914-1937. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647874662

Journalist and author of novels, short stories, poetry, and plays. Gale was also active in the Women's Peace Party and the women's suffrage movement.

From the description of Zona Gale letter : to Professor A.G. Arvold 1921 Sept. 24. (Texas Woman's University Library). WorldCat record id: 28037167

American novelist, playwright, and essayist.

From the description of Letter, [n.d., n.p.], to "Dear Friends," [New York?]. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34365094

Zona Gale was an novelist and playwright.

From the description of Letters, 1924-1934. (College of William & Mary). WorldCat record id: 42217923

Zona Gale was a popular American journalist and author. Although she worked in New York City for a time, it was her small-town Wisconsin roots that inspired her most successful works. Her early, romantic novels gave way to more realistic depictions of small-town life, culminating with a Pulitzer Prize in 1921 for a dramatization of her novel, Miss Lulu Bett. She expressed her theme as, "Life is something more than that which we believe it to be."

From the description of Zona Gale letter to Mrs. Marsh, ca. 1901. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 53943025

American author.

From the description of Zona Gale letters : Portage, Wisconsin, 1930, 1934. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 49377776

Author.

From the description of Bridal pond : corrected typescript circa 1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131320

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  • American literature
  • Publishers and publishing
  • Theater
  • Authors, American
  • American fiction
  • Women authors, American
  • Authors
  • Authors
  • Women authors
  • Book reviewing
  • Civil rights
  • Copyright
  • Copyright
  • Criticism
  • Dramatists
  • Literary prizes
  • Literature
  • Mysticism
  • Pacifism
  • Prohibition
  • Voyages and travels
  • Women
  • Ẁomen authors, American
  • Women dramatists, American

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  • Authors, American
  • Authors

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  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Wisconsin (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)

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