Born: 26-Aug-1874
Birthplace: Portage, WI
Died: 27-Dec-1938
Location of death: Chicago, IL
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Novelist, Playwright

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Miss Lulu Bett

    High School: Wayland Academy, Beaver Dam, WI
    University: BLit, University of Wisconsin at Madison (1895)
    University: MA Literature, University of Wisconsin at Madison (1899)
    Administrator: Regent, University of Wisconsin (1923-29)

    Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1921 for Miss Lulu Bett

Author of books:
Romance Island (1906, novel)
The Loves of Pelleas and Etarre (1907, short stories)
Friendship Village (1908, short stories)
Friendship Village Love Stories (1909, short stories)
Mothers to Men (1911, short stories)
Christmas: A Story (1912, novel)
When I Was a Little Girl (1913, short stories)
Neighborhood Stories (1914, short stories)
Heart's Kindred (1915, novel)
A Daughter of the Morning (1917, novel)
Birth (1918, novel)
Peace in Friendship Village (1919, short stories)
Miss Lulu Bett (1920, novel)
The Neighbors (1920, short stories)
The Secret Way (1921, poetry)
The Novel of Tomorrow (1922)
Faint Perfume (1923, novel)
Preface to Life (1926, novel)
Yellow Gentians and Blue (1927, short stories)
Portage, Wisconsin and Other Essays (1928, essays)
Borgia (1929, novel)
Bridal Pond (1930, novel)
Papa La Fleur (1933, novel)
Old-Fashioned Tales (1933, short stories)
Light Woman (1937, novel)
Frank Miller of Mission Inn (1938, biography)
Magna (1939, novel, posthumous)

Wrote plays:
Miss Lulu Bett (1920)
Uncle Jimmy (1922)
Mister Pitt (1924)
Mr. Pitt (1925)
The Clouds (1932)
Evening Clothes (1932)
Faint Perfume (1934)

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