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.[1] He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938.[2]
Odell Shepard | |
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86th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut | |
In office 1941–1943 | |
Governor | Robert A. Hurley |
Preceded by | James L. McConaughy |
Succeeded by | William L. Hadden |
Personal details | |
Born | Sterling, Illinois, U.S. | July 22, 1884
Died | July 19, 1967 New London, Connecticut, U.S. | (aged 82)
Awards | |
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,[3] he was a mentor to Abbie Huston Evans.[4] 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,[5] for which he won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.[2]
His papers are held at Trinity College.[3]
He died in 1967.