Odell Shepard (July 22, 1884 in

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– July 19, 1967 in

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) was an American professor,

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, and

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who was the 86th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1941 to 1943. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938.

Life

Shepard was born in Illinois. He graduated from

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, and taught at the English department of

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. A professor of English at

Trinity College Trinity College may refer to: Australia * Trinity Anglican College, an Anglican coeducational primary and secondary school in , New South Wales * Trinity Catholic College, Auburn, a coeducational school in the inner-western suburbs of Sydney, New ...

in 1917–1946,http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/News_Events/reporter/fall06/archival.htm he was a mentor to Abbie Huston Evans. He edited the works of Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, and

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. Shepard wrote a biography of

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, the father of writer Louisa May Alcott and one of the foremost

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: ''Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott'', published by

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in 1937, for which he won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. His papers are held at Trinity College. He died in 1967.

Awards

* 1938 Pulitzer Prize for his ''Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott,'' (Little, Brown and Company)"Biography or Autobiography"
The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-01. *

Golden Rose Award The Golden Rose Award, one of America’s oldest literary prizes, was inaugurated in 1919. The rose was modeled after the Gold Rose which is now in the Cluny Museum in Paris. ThNew England Poetry Clubawards the Rose annually for American poetry. ...

Works

* * * * reprint 2008 * reprint 1969 * reissue 1984

Biography

* reprint 2007

Coauthor

* Willard Shepard was the son of Odell Shepard. * Historical fiction.

Edited

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References

External links

* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Shepard, Odell 1884 births 1967 deaths 20th-century American poets 20th-century American biographers Lieutenant Governors of Connecticut Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners Harvard University alumni Yale University faculty Trinity College (Connecticut) faculty 20th-century American politicians People from Sterling, Illinois 20th-century American non-fiction writers