Zona Gale (August 26 1874–December 27 1938) was an American writer.

She was born at Portage, Wisconsin (which she often used as a setting in her writing), and attended Wayland Academy at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. Later she entered the University of Wisconsin-Madison, from which institution she received a Bachelor of Literature degree in 1895, and four years later a Master's degree.

After graduation Gale wrote for newspapers in Milwaukee and New York City. However, before long she gave up journalism to focus on writing. She then published her first novel "Romance Island" and began the very popular series of "Friendship Village" stories.

In 1912, Gale moved back to Portage, which she would call call home for the rest of her life, although alternating with trips to New York.

In 1920, she published the novel Miss Lulu Bett, which depicts life in the Midwest. She adapted it as a play, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921.

In 1921, Zona Gale took an active role in the creation of the Wisconsin Equal Rights Law, which prohibits discrimination of women.

Bibliography

• Romance Island (1906) - novel
• The Loves of Pelleas and Etarre (1907) - short stories
• Friendship Village (1908) - short stories
• Friendship Village Love Stories (1909) - short stories
• Mothers to Men (1911) - short stories
• Christmas: A Story (1912)
• Civic Improvement in the Little Towns (1913) - essay
• When I Was a Little Girl (1913) - short stories
• Neighborhood Stories (1914) - short stories
• The Neighbors (1914) - in Wisconsin Plays, T.H. Dickinson, ed.
• Heart's Kindred (1915)
• A Daughter of the Morning (1917) - novel
• Birth (1918) - novel
• Peace in Friendship Village (1919) - short stories
• Miss Lulu Bett (1920) - novel
• The Neighbors (1920) - short stories
• Miss Lulu Bett (1920) - dramatization of the novel
• The Secret Way (1921) - poetry
• Uncle Jimmy (1922) - play
• What Women Won in Wisconsin (1922) - essay
• The Novel of Tomorrow (1922) - in The Novel of tomorrow : and the scope of fiction
• Faint Perfume (1923) - novel
• Mr. Pitt (1925) - play
• Preface to Life (1926) - novel
• Yellow Gentians and Blue (1927) - short stories
• Portage, Wisconsin and Other Essays (1928)
• Borgia (1929) - novel
• Bridal Pond (1930) - novel
• The Clouds (1932) - play
• Evening Clothes (1932) - play
• Papa La Fleur (1933) - novel
• Old-Fashioned Tales (1933)
• Faint Perfume (1934) - dramatization of the novel
• Light Woman (1937) - novel
• Frank Miller of Mission Inn (1938) - biography
• Magna (1939) - novel

External Link

• Writings by Gale at Project Gutenberg