Zona Gale
Zona Gale was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, adapting her own novel Miss Lulu Bett. Her Wisconsin fiction moved from sentimental local color toward an incisive feminist realism.
Works
- Miss Lulu BettPlay and novel about a woman's assertion of independence and escape from family constraints
- Birth
- Friendship VillageCollection of stories and sketches portraying small-town Wisconsin village life and characters
- Faint PerfumeNovel depicting a woman's search for meaning and connection in a small Midwestern town
- Preface to a LifeNovel exploring memory, identity, and self-discovery through a woman's life reflections