Odell Shepard

Odell Shepard
Odell Shepard
86th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut
	In office; 1941–1943
Governor	Robert A. Hurley
Preceded by	James L. McConaughy
Succeeded by	William L. Hadden
Personal details
Born	July 22, 1884; Sterling, Illinois, U.S.
Died	July 19, 1967 (aged 82); New London, Connecticut, U.S.
Awards	Pulitzer Prize (1938); Golden Rose Award;

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.[1] He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938.[2]

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 in 1917–1946,[3] he was a mentor to Abbie Huston Evans.[4] 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,[5] for which he won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.[2]

His papers are held at Trinity College.[3]

He died in 1967.

1938 Pulitzer Prize for his Pedlar's Progress: The life of Bronson Alcott, (Little, Brown and Company)[2]
Golden Rose Award

A lonely flute. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1917.
The harvest of a quiet eye: a book of digressions. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1927.
Connecticut Past and Present. Alfred A. Knopf Inc. 1939.
Shepard, Odell (1930). The Lore of the Unicorn. George Allen. ISBN 978-1-4375-0853-6. reprint 2008
Shepard, Odell (1928). The joys of forgetting: a book of bagatelles. Ayer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8369-1429-0. reprint 1969
Shepard, Odell (1930). Thy Rod and Thy Creel. Globe Pequot. ISBN 978-0-8329-0364-9. reissue 1984

Shepard, Odell (1937). Pedlar's Progress. READ BOOKS. ISBN 978-1-4067-4410-1. reprint 2007

Henry David Thoreau (1921). A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers. Scribner's.
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.

Political offices
Preceded by James L. McConaughy	Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut 1941-1943	Succeeded by William L. Hadden

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