Odell Shepard

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 66th 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

• 1938 Pulitzer Prize for his Pedlar's Progress: The life of Bronson Alcott, (Little, Brown and Company)^[2]
• Golden Rose Award

Works

Wikisource has original works written by or about: Odell Shepard

• A lonely flute. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1917. 
• The harvest of a quiet eye: a book of digressions. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1927. 
• 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. READ BOOKS. ISBN 978-1-4067-4410-1.  reprint 2007

Coauthor

• Willard Shepard (1946). Holdfast Gaines. The Macmillan company. 
• Willard Shepard (1951). Jenkins' Ear. Macmillan. 

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. 

References

External links

• Works by Odell Shepard at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Odell Shepard at Internet Archive
• Works by Odell Shepard at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Odell Shepard at Library of Congress Authorities, with 39 catalog records