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.
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 from 1917 to 1946,
[ Trinity College Archives, Odell Shepard Papers] 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,
His papers are held at Trinity College.
He died in 1967.
Awards
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1938 Pulitzer Prize for his Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott, (Little, Brown and Company)
[ "Biography or Autobiography". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-01.]
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Golden Rose Award
Works
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reprint 2008
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reprint 1969
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reissue 1984
Biography
Coauthor
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Willard Shepard was the son of Odell Shepard.
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Historical fiction about the War of Jenkins' Ear.
Edited
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