Odell Shepard

Odell Shepard (July 22, 1884 Sterling, Illinois - 1967) was an American professor, poet, and politician who was the Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1941 to 1943.

Life

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, he was a mentor to Abbie Huston Evans. He edited the works of Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

He wrote Pedlar's Progress, a biography of Bronson Alcott, the father of writer Louisa May Alcott, and one of the foremost Transcendentalists. His papers are held at Trinity College.

Awards

• 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Pedlar's Progress
• Golden Rose Award

Works

• A lonely flute. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1917.
• The harvest of a quiet eye: a book of digressions. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1927.
• The Lore of the Unicorn. George Allen. 1930. reprint 2008
• The joys of forgetting: a book of bagatelles. Ayer Publishing. 1928. ISBN 9780836914290. reprint 1969
• Thy Rod and Thy Creel. Globe Pequot. 1930. ISBN 9780832903649. reissue 1984

Biography

• Pedlar's Progress. READ BOOKS. 1937. ISBN 9781406744101. 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.

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