Zona+Gale

__**Zona Gale's Biography** __ Gale was born in [|Portage, Wisconsin], which she often used as a setting in her writing. She attended [|Wayland Academy] in [|Beaver Dam, Wisconsin], and later entered the[|University of Wisconsin–Madison], from which she received a Bachelor of Literature degree in 1895, and four years, later a master's degree. After college, Gale wrote for newspapers in [|Milwaukee] and [|New York City], for six years. "A visit to Portage in 1903 proved a turning point in her literary life, as seeing the sights and sounds of town life led her to comment that her 'old world was full of new possibilities.' Gale had found the material she needed for her writing, and returned to Portage in 1904 to concentrate full time on fiction."[|[1]] She wrote and published there until her 1938 death, although making trips to New York.[|[1]]She published her first novel, Romance Island, in 1906, and began the very popular series of "Friendship Village" stories. In 1920, she published the novel [|Miss Lulu Bett], which depicts life in the [|Midwestern United States]. She adapted it as a play, which was awarded the [|Pulitzer Prize for Drama] in 1921.[|[1]]"In addition to her fiction writing, Gale was an active supporter of the La Follettes (both [|Robert M. La Follettes], and [|Philip La Follette]) and progressive causes. She was an active member of the [|National Women's Party], and she lobbied extensively for the 1921 [|Wisconsin Equal Rights Law]."[|[1]] In the same year, she attended the founding meeting (in New York) of [|Lucy Stone]and became a member of its Executive Committee.[|[2]] Her activism on behalf of women was her way to help solve "a problem she returned to repeatedly in her novels: women's frustration at their lack of opportunities."[|[1]]In 1928 at the age of fifty-four she married William L. Breese, also of Portage.Gale died of pneumonia in a Chicago hospital in 1938.[|[3]] **(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zona_Gale)**

__**Plays by Zona Gale** __
 * The Neighbors (1914) (in Plays, edited by T.H. Dickinson)
 * Miss Lulu Bett (1920) (dramatization of her novel)
 * Uncle Jimmy (1922)
 * Mr. Pitt (1925)
 * The Clouds (1932)
 * Evening Clothes (1932)
 * Faint Perfume (1934) (dramatization of her novel)

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