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Ellen Glasgow

Novelist, short story writer (1873-1945) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 72

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942 for her novel In This Our Life. She published 20 novels, as well as short stories, to critical acclaim.

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Awards

Pulitzer Prize for the Novel1942
William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters1940

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A lifelong Virginian, Glasgow portrayed the changing world of the contemporary South in a realistic manner, differing from the idealistic escapism that characterized Southern literature after Reconstruction.

Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1873 to 1945 · aged 72

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