Odell Shepard

Odell Shepard (July 22, 1884 Sterling, Illinois - July 19, 1967) was an American professor, poet, and politician who was the Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1941 to 1943.^[1]

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,^[2] he was a mentor to Abbie Huston Evans.^[3] 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.^[4] His papers are held at Trinity College.^[2]

He died in New London, Connecticut on the 19 June 1967.

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. 
• Shepard, Odell (1930). The Lore of the Unicorn. George Allen. ISBN 9781437508536. http://books.google.com/books?id=jXkPgfPTK9IC&pg=PP1&dq=Odell+Shepard&lr=.  reprint 2008
• Shepard, Odell (1928). The joys of forgetting: a book of bagatelles. Ayer Publishing. ISBN 9780836914290. http://books.google.com/books?id=wLH3sC9a2-EC&dq=Odell+Shepard&printsec=frontcover&source=an&hl=en&ei=8nstSoaFEIbOMZzY5dAJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6#PPP1,M1.  reprint 1969
• Shepard, Odell (1930). Thy Rod and Thy Creel. Globe Pequot. ISBN 9780832903649. http://books.google.com/books?id=a_q04nCctfcC&pg=PP1&dq=Odell+Shepard#PPP1,M1.  reissue 1984

Biography

• Shepard, Odell (1937). Pedlar's Progress. READ BOOKS. ISBN 9781406744101. http://books.google.com/books?id=W2OP1qbfJhYC&pg=PP1&dq=Odell+Shepard&lr=#PPP1,M1.  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. http://books.google.com/books?id=xwFFAAAAIAAJ&dq=Odell+Shepard&printsec=frontcover&source=an&hl=en&ei=8nstSoaFEIbOMZzY5dAJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4. 
• 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. 

References

1. ^ "Lieutenant Governors". Connecticut State Library. 8/2008. http://www.cslib.org/agencies/lieutenantgovernor.htm. 
2. ^ ^{a b} http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/News_Events/reporter/fall06/archival.htm
3. ^ http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/evans.htm
4. ^ Federal Writers' Project. Connecticut: A Guide to Its Roads, Lore and People. US History Publishers. ISBN 9781603540070. http://books.google.com/books?id=CPYfSsQ-WE4C&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109&dq=Odell+Shepard+connecticut&source=bl&ots=H0FUq_ZZpR&sig=w6LJ4hWz9r4eSVh9KXO0a3rG8OI&hl=en&ei=MMUtSoezK4amM-ex2IIK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPA109,M1. 

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Name	Shepard, Odell
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Short description	American politician
Date of birth	July 22, 1884
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Date of death	July 19, 1967
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