Odell Shepard

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. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938.

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, he was a mentor to Abbie Huston Evans. 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, for which he won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.

His papers are held at Trinity College.

He died in 1967.

Awards

Works

Biography

Coauthor

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. The Century co. 1928.
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1934). Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: representative selections. American Book Company.

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