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Portage, Wisconsin: August 26, 1874, U.S. December 27, 1938 (Aged 64), , U.S

Zona Gale was an American writer born in 1874 in Portage, Wisconsin. She often used her hometown of Portage as the setting in her popular novels and short stories. Gale had a successful writing career, publishing her first novel in 1906. Her 1920 novel Miss Lulu Bett was adapted as a play that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921. In addition to her fiction writing, Gale was a supporter of progressive causes and women's rights, lobbying for a 1921 law granting women in Wisconsin equal rights. She died in 1938 at the age of 64 in Chicago.

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Portage, Wisconsin: August 26, 1874, U.S. December 27, 1938 (Aged 64), , U.S

Zona Gale was an American writer born in 1874 in Portage, Wisconsin. She often used her hometown of Portage as the setting in her popular novels and short stories. Gale had a successful writing career, publishing her first novel in 1906. Her 1920 novel Miss Lulu Bett was adapted as a play that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921. In addition to her fiction writing, Gale was a supporter of progressive causes and women's rights, lobbying for a 1921 law granting women in Wisconsin equal rights. She died in 1938 at the age of 64 in Chicago.

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August 26, 1874 Portage, Wisconsin, U.S. December 27, 1938 (aged 64) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

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Occupation Writer Nationality American


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 WisconsinMadison, 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, but made 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 theNational 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 the Lucy Stone Leagueand 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] The house she built for her parents in Portage, now known as the Zona Gale House, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[4]

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