Odell Shepard

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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,^[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.

1938 Pulitzer Prize for his Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott, (Little, Brown and Company)^[2]
Golden Rose Award

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