Zona Gale

Zona Gale
Born	August 26, 1874(1874-08-26) Portage, Wisconsin
Died	December 27, 1938 (aged 64)
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American

Zona Gale (26 August 1874 – 27 December 1938) was an American author and playwright.

Biography

Gale was born in Portage, Wisconsin, which she often used as a setting in her writing. She attended Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, and later entered the University of Wisconsin–Madison, from which she received a Bachelor of Literature degree in 1895, and four years, later a master's degree.

After graduation, Gale wrote for newspapers in Milwaukee and New York City. However, before long she gave up journalism to focus on writing fiction. She published her first novel, Romance Island, in 1906, and began the very popular series of "Friendship Village" stories.

In 1912, Gale moved back to Portage, which she would call home for the rest of her life, although making trips to New York. In 1920, she published the novel Miss Lulu Bett, which depicts life in the Midwestern United States. She adapted it as a play, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921. In the same year, Gale took an active role in the creation of the Wisconsin Equal Rights Law, which prohibits discrimination against women.

In 1928 at the age of fifty-four she married William L. Breese, also of Portage.

Bibliography

Novels

• Romance Island (1906)
• Christmas: A Story (1912)
• Heart's Kindred (1915)
• A Daughter of the Morning (1917)
• Birth (1918)
• Miss Lulu Bett (1920)
• Faint Perfume (1923)
• Preface to Life (1926)
• Borgia (1929)
• Papa La Fleur (1933)
• Light Woman (1937)
• Magna (1939)

Short stories

• The Loves of Pelleas and Etarre (1907)
• Friendship Village (1908)
• Friendship Village Love Stories (1909)
• Mothers to Men (1911)
• When I Was a Little Girl (1913)
• Neighborhood Stories (1914)
• Peace in Friendship Village (1919)
• The Neighbors (1920)
• Yellow Gentians and Blue (1927)
• Bill (1927)
• Old-Fashioned Tales (1933)

Plays

• The Neighbors (1914) (in Wisconsin Plays, edited by T.H. Dickinson)
• Miss Lulu Bett (1920) (dramatization of her novel)
• Uncle Jimmy (1922)
• Mr. Pitt (1925)
• The Clouds (1932)
• Evening Clothes (1932)
• Faint Perfume (1934) (dramatization of her novel)

Poetry

• The Secret Way (1921)

Essays and non-fiction

• Civic Improvement in the Little Towns (1913) (pamphlet)
• What Women Won in Wisconsin (1922) (pamphlet)
• "The Novel of Tomorrow" (1922) (in The Novel of Tomorrow and the Scope of Fiction by Twelve American Novelists)
• Portage, Wisconsin and Other Essays (1928)
• Frank Miller of Mission Inn (biography) (1938)

External links

Wikisource has original works written by or about: Zona Gale

• Works by Zona Gale at Project Gutenberg
• Zona Gale - bibliographical overview, links to works online
• [1] Obituary in Wisconsin State Journal

, December 29, 1938.

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