Word: llywelyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tough assignment given her, found time for a daily letter to her mother, for her own writing on the side. After three years of it she went back to Portage in 1904, settled down to write. When she married, about five years ago, she took a Portage man, William Llywelyn Breese, banker-manufacturer. The U. S. is conscious of her chiefly as authoress of some twenty-odd books, of which Miss Lulu Bett is most famed (her dramatization of it won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize). Wisconsin knows her as a liberal in education (onetime regent of its University, her alma...
Author. Author Zona Gale (people joked when she married William Llywelyn Breese) was born in Portage, Wis., 56 years ago, still lives there. Once an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin, she has served on the Board of Regents. Once a newshawk (for Milwaukee papers and New York World) she is now newsworthy. In 1911 she won first prize in a short-story contest in which there were 15,000 entries. In 1921 her play Miss Lulu Belt won the Pulitzer Prize. Last month she publicly forgave a plagiarist (TIME. Sept. 15). Other books: Preface to a Life, Faint Perfume...
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