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1937 | Pedlar's Progress. This biography of Bronson Alcott, the father of writer Louisa May Alcott and one of the foremost Transcendentalists, wins the Pulitzer Prize and is praised for resurrecting the reputation of an important American figure and for skillfully capturing his era. A professor of English at Trinity College from 1917 to 1946, Shepard edited the works of Thoreau, Alcott, and Longfellow, produced college literature textbooks, and cowrote with his son Willard two historical novels, Holdfast Gaines (1946) and Jenkins' Ear (1951). |
