Word: zona
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frederick Jackson Turner, Litt. D. '09, professor of history at the University since 1910, will be the guest of honor at a farewell banquet in the Harvard Club of Boston on Saturday, May 24, Dr. Turner is returning to his home in Portage, Wisconsin, the town made famous by Zona Gale, where he will devote himself to research and writing...
...favorite among his novels; Lord Bryce, with "Modern Democracies," Thomas Hardy, with "The Dynasts," William Allen White, who owed his place to the vogue of his tale of "A Certain Rich Man," Louis Hemon, with his Canadian story, "Maria Chapdelaine," Ernest Poole, May Sinclair, Hamlin Garland, Zona Gale, and Rabindranath Tagore...
...will be one of the judges to select the winning stories in the Harper's Magazine 10,000 dollar prize story contest, the first competition of which closes March 31. Serving with Professor Perry as judges are Meredith Nicholson of Indianapolis, Ind., a noted novelist, essayist, and philosopher; and Zona Gale of Portage, Wis., one of America's ablest short-story writers...
William Allen White, famed editor of the Emporia Gazette: "In a speech before the Writers' Club of Columbia University, I stated that the four greatest writers of fiction in America today are Willa Cather, Edna Ferber [see Page 14], Zona Gale, Dorothy Canfield. I also stated that I am 'trying to write a kindly biography of Woodrow Wilson, whose aims I have always believed in, though I sometimes despised his methods...
Mister Pitt.* In her desperate search after the minutiae of life Zona Gale has inadvertently snubbed the footlights. Any technical tyro would have respected more highly the rules of the game. Episodic scenes, dank pauses, chatty interludes may indeed be small town life, but they are far from big town theatre...