Odell Shepard Explained

Odell Shepard
Order:	86th
Office:	Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut
Term Start:	1941
Term End:	1943
Governor:	Robert A. Hurley
Predecessor:	James L. McConaughy
Successor:	William L. Hadden
Birth Date:	22 July 1884
Birth Place:	Sterling, Illinois, U.S.
Death Place:	New London, Connecticut, U.S.

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.

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

His papers are held at Trinity College.

He died in 1967.

Awards

• 1938 Pulitzer Prize for his Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott, (Little, Brown and Company)^[5]
• Golden Rose Award

Works

• Book: A Lonely Flute. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1917 . 9781437508536.
• Book: The Harvest of a Quiet Eye: A Book of Digressions. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1927 .
• Book: Connecticut Past and Present. Alfred A. Knopf Inc.. 1939 .
• Book: Shepard, Odell . The Lore of the Unicorn . George Allen. 1930 . 978-1-4375-0853-6. reprint 2008
• Book: Shepard, Odell . The Joys of Forgetting: A Book of Bagatelles. Ayer Publishing. 1928. 978-0-8369-1429-0 . reprint 1969
• Book: Shepard, Odell . Thy Rod and Thy Creel. Globe Pequot. 978-0-8329-0364-9. 1930 . reissue 1984

Biography

• Book: Shepard, Odell . Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott. 1937. READ BOOKS. 978-1-4067-4410-1 . reprint 2007

Coauthor

• Book: Willard Shepard. The Macmillan Company. Holdfast Gaines . 1946 . Willard Shepard was the son of Odell Shepard.
• Book: Willard Shepard. Jenkins' Ear: A Narrative Attributed to Horace Walpole, Esq. . registration. Macmillan . 1951 . Historical fiction about the War of Jenkins' Ear.

Edited

• Book: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Henry David Thoreau. Scribner's. 1921 .
• Book: Essays of 1925. registration. E.V. Mitchell. 1926 .
• Book: Essays of Today 1926–1927. Century Company. 1928 .
• Book: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Representative Selections. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. American Book Company. 1934 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lieutenant Governors . Connecticut State Library . August 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071026194408/http://www.cslib.org/agencies/lieutenantgovernor.htm . October 26, 2007 .
2. https://trinitywatkinson.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/34 Trinity College Archives, Odell Shepard Papers
3. Web site: Manuscript and Archival Collection Finding Aids.
4. Book: Odell Shepard. Pedlar's Progress: The Life Of Bronson Alcott. 1937. Little, Brown and Company. Universal Digital Library.
5. http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Biography-or-Autobiography "Biography or Autobiography"