Odell Shepard
Odell Shepard (July 22, 1884 in Sterling, Illinois – July 19, 1967 in New London, Connecticut) was an American professor, poet, and politician who was the 86th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1941 to 1943. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938.
Odell Shepard
- Name
- Odell Shepard
- Born
- 22 July 1884
- Birthplace
- Sterling, Illinois, U.S.
- Died
- 19 July 1967
- Place of death
- New London, Connecticut, U.S.
- Awards
- * Pulitzer Prize (1938)
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- politician · writer · university teacher · poet · biographer
- Education
- Harvard University · Yale University · Northwestern University · University of Chicago
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship · Pulitzer Prize for Biography
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• Name — Odell Shepard • Order — 86th • Office — Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut • Term Start — 1941 • Term End — 1943 • Governor — Robert A. Hurley • Predecessor — James L. McConaughy • Successor — William L. Hadden • Born — 22 July 1884 • Birthplace — Sterling, Illinois, U.S. • Died — 19 July 1967 • Place of death — New London, Connecticut, U.S. • Awards — * Pulitzer Prize (1938) • Golden Rose Award
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Odell Shepard, a writer, university teacher and politician, was born in 1884 and died in 1967. Both events are recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Life
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Shepard was born in 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, he was a mentor to Abbie Huston Evans. 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: The Life of Bronson Alcott, published by Little, Brown in 1937, for which he won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. His papers are held at Trinity College. He died in 1967.
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* * * • reprint 2008 • reprint 1969 • reissue 1984
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• reprint 2007
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Sterling.
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• 1938 Pulitzer Prize for his Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott, (Little, Brown and Company) • Golden Rose Award
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- 1.Lieutenant Governors. Connecticut State Library. August 2008.
- 2.Trinity College Archives, Odell Shepard Papers
- 3.Manuscript and Archival Collection Finding Aids.
- 4.Odell Shepard. Pedlar's Progress: The Life Of Bronson Alcott. Little, Brown and Company. 1937.
- 5."Biography or Autobiography". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-01.
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