Inspirational Quotes by Zona Gale (American Novelist, Playwright)

Zona Gale (1874–1938,) later Zona Gale Breese, was an American novelist, storywriter, and dramatist. Her Miss Lulu Bett (1920) established her as a realistic chronicler of Midwestern village life.

Born in Portage, Wisconsin, Gale graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1895 and received a master’s degree in literature from Wisconsin (1899.) She was a newspaper reporter for the Evening Wisconsin and then the Milwaukee Journal and later Evening World in New York City.

Gale began writing sentimental romances, as in her first novel, Romance Island (1906.) She was scorned and disliked for increasing pacifism and feminism but gained recognition for her novel Birth (1918,) which was dramatized in 1924 as Mr. Pitt.

Gale found fame with her novel Miss Lulu Bett (1920,) and her dramatization won her a Pulitzer (1921.) She later turned to the mysticism of George Gurdjieff, which strengthened her work, as in the autobiographical Portage, Wisconsin (1928,) the story collection Yellow Gentians and Blue (1927,) and the novel Papa La Fleur (1933.)

Gale was a suffragist, an activist, and a liberal Democrat, becoming an avid supporter of Robert La Follette’s Progressive Party. She was against racial prejudice and promoted improved means of communication among races.

August Derleth wrote Gale’s biography, Still, Small Voice (1940.)

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