Odell Shepard (July 22, 1884 - July 19, 1967) 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]
Life
Shepard was born in Sterling, Illinois. He graduated from Harvard University, and taught at the English department of Yale University. A professor of English at Trinity College from 1917 to 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, published by Little, Brown in 1937.[5] For that work he won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Biography.[2]
His papers are held at Trinity College.[3]
He died in New London, Connecticut on June 19, 1967.
Awards
- 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Pedlar's Progress: the life of Bronson Alcott (Little, Brown and Company)[2]
- Golden Rose Award
Works
Biography
Coauthor
- Willard Shepard (1946). Holdfast Gaines. The Macmillan company.
- Willard Shepard (1951). Jenkins' Ear. Macmillan.
Edited
- Henry David Thoreau (1921). A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers. Scribner's.
- Essays of 1925. E.V. Mitchell. 1926.
- Essays of today 1926-1927. The Century co. 1928.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1934). Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: representative selections. American Book Company.
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| Name |
Shepard, Odell |
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| Short description |
American politician |
| Date of birth |
July 22, 1884 |
| Place of birth |
Sterling, Illinois, USA |
| Date of death |
July 19, 1967 |
| Place of death |
New London, Connecticut, USA |
