(1874-08-26)August 26, 1874 Portage, Wisconsin, U.S.
Died
December 27, 1938(1938-12-27) (aged 64) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation
Writer
Education
University of Wisconsin, Madison (BA, MLS, MA)
Genre
Fiction primarily
Notable works
Miss Lulu Bett
Notable awards
Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1921)
Spouse
William L. Breese
(m. 1928)
Children
2
Zona Gale (August 26, 1874 – December 27, 1938), also known by her married name, Zona Gale Breese, was an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright. She became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921. The close relationship she had with her parents set the tone for her writing and her personal life. Her books based upon her home town were found to be charming and had an intimate sense of realism, in which she captures the underlying feelings and motivations of her characters. All of her works were written under her maiden name, Zona Gale.
She became a single parent when she adopted a girl. Her parents died in 1923 and 1929. After her parents died, she became interested in mysticism, which changed her writing style, to the chagrin of the critics who had enjoyed her previous work. She was unmarried until she was in her fifties, when she married a childhood friend who was a widower. She supported political and social causes, like women's rights, pacifism, and education.
ZonaGale (August 26, 1874 – December 27, 1938), also known by her married name, ZonaGale Breese, was an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright...
The ZonaGale House is a historic house located at 506 West Edgewater Street in Portage, Wisconsin. It is locally and generally significant for its association...
figures of his time: early Pulitzer Prize winners Hamlin Garland and ZonaGale, as well as Sinclair Lewis, the last both an admirer and critic of Derleth...
Production Author 1920 Beyond the Horizon Eugene O'Neill 1921 Miss Lulu Bett ZonaGale 1922 Anna Christie Eugene O'Neill 1923 Icebound Owen Davis 1924 Hell-Bent...
Eggleston Sui Sin Far William Faulkner Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Richard Ford ZonaGale Hamlin Garland Ellen Glasgow Davis Grubb Joel Chandler Harris Bret Harte...
caught the attention of her Portage neighbor ZonaGale, a well-known writer, journalist, and suffragist. Gale became the first woman to win the Pulitzer...
a heart attack, Perry returned to the stage. In 1924 she appeared in ZonaGale's Mr. Pitt. She appeared notably in George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's...
sometimes manipulative influence that ZonaGale had on Latimer. Linden's physical appearance is closely modelled on Gale's. Latimer died a few years after the...
American engineer and academic, invented the Audion tube (d. 1961) 1874 – ZonaGale, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (d. 1938) 1875...
in 1951. Among his other productions was Miss Lulu Bett, whose writer ZonaGale became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, Personal Appearance...
Miss Jane Pittman Mary Gaitskill (born 1954), Two Girls, Fat and Thin ZonaGale (1874–1938), Miss Lulu Bett Paul Gallico (1897–1976), The Poseidon Adventure...
John J. Crittenden, Samuel H. Walker, Alcee Fortier, Joshua Hendy, and ZonaGale. (15 seagoing cowboys) Type C4-class ship: Mount Whitney. (80 cowboys...
ISBN 0-8128-2789-9 "Maxwell Anderson". IMDb. Gale, C. (2016). A Study Guide for Maxwell Anderson's ""Winterset, "" excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students...
Miss Lulu Bett (novel), a novel published in 1920 by American author ZonaGale Miss Lulu Bett (film), a 1921 silent film adapted by Clara Beranger and...
1938 – Osip Mandelstam, Polish-Russian poet and critic (b. 1891) 1938 – ZonaGale, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1874) 1939...
1930 Latimer involved ZonaGale in Gurdjieff's philosophy and partook the "Portage Experiment". The experiment was conducted by Gale, Latimer, her husband...
Vorse, political activist Crystal Eastman, actress Ida Rauh, writers ZonaGale and Mary Austin, and many others. Among Bryant's new friends were feminists...
productive new friendships with American writers like Edmund Clarence Stedman, ZonaGale, and even Mary MacLane, but he continued to have difficulty publishing...
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