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. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938.

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, 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, for which he won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.

His papers are held at Trinity College.

He died in 1967.

Awards

• 1938 Pulitzer Prize for his Pedlar's Progress: The life of Bronson Alcott, (Little, Brown and Company)
• 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.
• 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.

External links

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