Odell Shepard
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Odell Shepard
Odell Shepard (July 22, 1884 Sterling, Illinois - July 19, 1967) was an American professor, poet, and politician who was the 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1941 to 1943.[1]
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Life
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,[2] he was a mentor to Abbie Huston Evans.[3] He edited the works of Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
He wrote Pedlar's Progress, a biography of Bronson Alcott, the father of writer Louisa May Alcott, and one of the foremost Transcendentalists.[4] His papers are held at Trinity College.[2]
He died in New London, Connecticut on the 19 June 1967.
Awards
- 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Pedlar's Progress
- Golden Rose Award
Works
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- A lonely flute. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1917.
- The harvest of a quiet eye: a book of digressions. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1927.
- Shepard, Odell (1930). The Lore of the Unicorn. George Allen. ISBN 978-1-4375-0853-6. http://books.google.com/books?id=jXkPgfPTK9IC&pg=PP1&dq=Odell+Shepard&lr=. reprint 2008
- Shepard, Odell (1928). The joys of forgetting: a book of bagatelles. Ayer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8369-1429-0. http://books.google.com/books?id=wLH3sC9a2-EC&dq=Odell+Shepard&printsec=frontcover&source=an&hl=en&ei=8nstSoaFEIbOMZzY5dAJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6#PPP1,M1. reprint 1969
- Shepard, Odell (1930). Thy Rod and Thy Creel. Globe Pequot. ISBN 978-0-8329-0364-9. http://books.google.com/books?id=a_q04nCctfcC&pg=PP1&dq=Odell+Shepard#PPP1,M1. reissue 1984
Biography
- Shepard, Odell (1937). Pedlar's Progress. READ BOOKS. ISBN 978-1-4067-4410-1. http://books.google.com/books?id=W2OP1qbfJhYC&pg=PP1&dq=Odell+Shepard&lr=#PPP1,M1. reprint 2007
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. http://books.google.com/books?id=xwFFAAAAIAAJ&dq=Odell+Shepard&printsec=frontcover&source=an&hl=en&ei=8nstSoaFEIbOMZzY5dAJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4.
- 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.
References
- ^ "Lieutenant Governors". Connecticut State Library. 8/2008. http://www.cslib.org/agencies/lieutenantgovernor.htm.
- ^ a b http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/News_Events/reporter/fall06/archival.htm
- ^ http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/evans.htm
- ^ Federal Writers' Project. Connecticut: A Guide to Its Roads, Lore and People. US History Publishers. ISBN 978-1-60354-007-0. http://books.google.com/books?id=CPYfSsQ-WE4C&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109&dq=Odell+Shepard+connecticut&source=bl&ots=H0FUq_ZZpR&sig=w6LJ4hWz9r4eSVh9KXO0a3rG8OI&hl=en&ei=MMUtSoezK4amM-ex2IIK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPA109,M1.
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