Odell Shepard

American professor, poet, and politician
Odell Shepard
86th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut
In office
1941–1943
GovernorRobert A. Hurley
Preceded byJames L. McConaughy
Succeeded byWilliam L. Hadden
Personal details
Born(1884-07-22)July 22, 1884
Sterling, Illinois, U.S.
DiedJuly 19, 1967(1967-07-19) (aged 82)
New London, Connecticut, U.S.
Awards

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.[1] He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938.[2]

Life

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 in 1917–1946,[3] he was a mentor to Abbie Huston Evans.[4] 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,[5] for which he won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.[2]

His papers are held at Trinity College.[3]

He died in 1967.

Awards

Works

Wikisource has original works by or about:
Odell Shepard
  • A Lonely Flute. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1917. ISBN 9781437508536.
  • The Harvest of a Quiet Eye: A Book of Digressions. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1927.
  • Connecticut Past and Present. Alfred A. Knopf Inc. 1939.
  • Shepard, Odell (1930). The Lore of the Unicorn. George Allen. ISBN 978-1-4375-0853-6. reprint 2008
  • Shepard, Odell (1928). The Joys of Forgetting: A Book of Bagatelles. Ayer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8369-1429-0. reprint 1969
  • Shepard, Odell (1930). Thy Rod and Thy Creel. Globe Pequot. ISBN 978-0-8329-0364-9. reissue 1984

Biography

  • Shepard, Odell (1937). Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott. READ BOOKS. ISBN 978-1-4067-4410-1. reprint 2007

Coauthor

  • Willard Shepard (1946). Holdfast Gaines. The Macmillan Company. Willard Shepard was the son of Odell Shepard.
  • Willard Shepard (1951). Jenkins' Ear: A Narrative Attributed to Horace Walpole, Esq. Macmillan. Historical fiction about War of Jenkins' Ear.

Edited

  • Henry David Thoreau (1921). A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Scribner's.
  • Essays of 1925. E.V. Mitchell. 1926.
  • Essays of Today 1926–1927. Century Company. 1928.
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1934). Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Representative Selections. American Book Company.

References

  1. ^ "Lieutenant Governors". Connecticut State Library. August 2008. Archived from the original on October 26, 2007.
  2. ^ a b c "Biography or Autobiography". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-01.
  3. ^ a b http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/News_Events/reporter/fall06/archival.htm[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "Manuscript and Archival Collection Finding Aids".
  5. ^ Odell Shepard (1937). Pedlar S Progress The Life Of Bronson Alcott. Universal Digital Library. Little, Brown and Company.

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