Ola Elizabeth Winslow Explained

Ola Elizabeth Winslow
Birth Date:January 5, 1885
Birth Place:Grant City, Missouri
Death Date:September 27, 1977 (aged 92)
Death Place:Damariscotta, Maine

Ola Elizabeth Winslow (January 5, 1885 in Grant City, Missouri – September 27, 1977 in Damariscotta, Maine)[1] was an American historian, biographer, and educator. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1941 for her biography of Jonathan Edwards, an 18th-century American theologian whose basic writings she edited for Signet Classics.

Born in Grant City, Missouri, Winslow was an instructor at College of the Pacific from 1909 to 1914, when she earned a master's degree from Stanford University. She was professor of English at Goucher College in Baltimore (1914–1944) and at Wellesley College (1944–1977, emeritus after 1950).[2]

Winslow earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1922 with a thesis that was later published as a book with the title Low Comedy as a Structural Element in English Drama from the Beginnings to 1642.

Winslow died in Maine at age 92.

Books

As editor

Notes and References

  1. Gale, Robert L. 'Winslow, Ola Elizabeth (1885-1977)', author and educator, American National Biography, 1999.
  2. Armstrong . Rodney . Ola Elizabeth Winslow . . 90 . 1978 . 120–121 . 25080834 .
  3. http://lccn.loc.gov/72008020 "Low comedy as a structural element in English drama "
  4. https://books.google.com/books/about/Jonathan_Edwards_1703_1758.html?id=kF9CAAAAIAAJ books.google.com
  5. http://lccn.loc.gov/74140612 "Harper's Literary Museum "
  6. http://lccn.loc.gov/77153361 "American Broadside Verse "