Zona Gale

Deborah Williams (New York University)

Ed. by Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 26 Aug 1874
Died 27 Dec 1938
Activity 1894-1938

Places

Born in Wisconsin
Active in United States

Activities

Primary

Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright / Dramatist
Poet
Story-writer

Resources

Gale's Works

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Zona Gale, the first woman to win a Pulitzer prize for drama, was born in 1874, the only child of middle-class parents. The family lived in the small Wisconsin town of Portage, which would become the setting for most of Gale's novels, stories, and plays. In many ways, Gale's early career fits the image of the turn-of-the-century New Woman: after finishing college, she worked as a journalist, first in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and then in New York, at the

New York World

. She gave up journalism, however, in order to concentrate full-time on fiction writing. Gale's first short stories, set in the fictional town of Friendship Village, were tremendously popular, and led to a number of Friendship Village collections. The first,

Friendship Village

, was published in 1908 and the last,

Peace in

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Citation: Williams, Deborah. "Zona Gale". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 January 2001 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1668, accessed 27 November 2024.]

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