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 86th 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 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.

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

 * reprint 2008
 * reprint 1969
 * reissue 1984
 * reprint 2008
 * reprint 1969
 * reissue 1984

Biography

 * reprint 2007

Coauthor

 * Willard Shepard was the son of Odell Shepard.
 * Historical fiction about the War of Jenkins' Ear.