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Gale, Zona
Gale, Zona (1874–1938), Wisconsin author, known for her short stories in the local‐color tradition, collected in such volumes as Friendship Village (1908), Yellow Gentians and Blue (1927), and Bridal Pond (1930). She won a Pulitzer Prize for her dramatization of her novel Miss Lulu Bett (1920), a study of a woman repressed by the bleak life of the Middle West. Other novels include Birth (1918), dramatized as Mr. Pitt (1924), the story of a similarly repressed man, whose simple honesty is scorned by the wife who deserts him and the son who is ashamed of his insignificance; Faint Perfume (1923), a character study of a poor relation; Preface to a Life (1926), dealing with the frustrated life of a businessman; Borgia (1929), the story of a morbid girl who thinks herself a modern Lucrezia Borgia; and Papa La Fleur (1933), the story of a country girl whose ideas of liberty for the younger generation hurt the feelings of both her father and her sweetheart. The Secret Way (1921) is a book of poems, Magna (1939) is a posthumously published novelette, and Portage, Wisconsin (1928) completes the autobiographical narrative begun in When I Was a Little Girl (1913). Still Small Voice (1940), a biography, was written by August Derleth.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Gale, Zona." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Gale, Zona." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-GaleZona.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Gale, Zona." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-GaleZona.html |
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Zona Gale
Zona Gale 1874-1938, American novelist and short-story writer, b. Portage, Wis., grad. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1895. After five years (1899-1904) of newspaper work in Milwaukee and New York City, she returned to her home town, determined to win success as a fiction writer. Of her bleak, realistic novels of life in the Middle West, Birth (1918), Miss Lulu Bett (1920), and Papa La Fleur (1933) won much attention in their time. Her dramatization of Miss Lulu Bett won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. Among her other novels are Faint Perfume (1923) and Light Woman (1937). |
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"Zona Gale." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Zona Gale." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Gale-Zon.html "Zona Gale." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Gale-Zon.html |
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Gale, Zona
Gale, Zona. See Miss Lulu Bett.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Gale, Zona." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Gale, Zona." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-GaleZona.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Gale, Zona." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-GaleZona.html |
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