Zona Gale

Zona Gale (born Aug. 26, 1874, Portage, Wis., U.S.—died Dec. 27, 1938, Chicago, Ill.) was an American novelist and playwright whose Miss Lulu Bett (1920) established her as a realistic chronicler of Midwestern village life. Gale determined at an early age to be a writer. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1895 and for six years was a newspaper reporter for the Evening Wisconsin and then the Milwaukee Journal, during which time she...