Ellen Glasgow | |
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Born | Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow April 22, 1873 Richmond, Virginia, U.S. |
Died | November 21, 1945 (aged 72) Richmond, Virginia, U.S. |
Occupation | Novelist |
Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (1942) |
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Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 – November 21, 1945) was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942 for her novel In This Our Life.[1] She published 20 novels, as well as short stories, to critical acclaim. A lifelong Virginian, Glasgow portrayed the changing world of the contemporary South in a realistic manner, differing from the idealistic escapism that characterized Southern literature after Reconstruction.[2]