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]

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

Life

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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 from 1917 to 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

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Works

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  • 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

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Coauthor

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Edited

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  • 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

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  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 Trinity College Archives, Odell Shepard Papers
  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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Political offices
Preceded by Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut
1941-1943
Succeeded by