Gale, Zona
Gale, Zona( 1874–1938),Wisconsin author, known for her short stories in the local-color tradition, collected in such volumes as Friendship Village (1908), Yellow Gentians and Blue (1927), and Bridal Pond (1930). She won a Pulitzer Prize for her dramatization of her novel Miss Lulu Bett (1920), a study of a woman repressed by the bleak life of the Middle West. Other novels include Birth (1918), dramatized as Mr. Pitt (1924), the story of a similarly repressed man, whose simple honesty is scorned by the wife who deserts him and the son who is ashamed of his insignificance; Faint Perfume (1923), a character study of a poor relation; Preface to a Life (1926), dealing with the frustrated life of a businessman; Borgia (1929), the story of a morbid girl who thinks herself a modern Lucrezia Borgia; and Papa La Fleur (1933), the story of a country girl whose ideas of liberty for the younger...
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