Zona Gale was born in Portage, Wisconsin. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 1895, she worked as a newspaper reporter in Milwaukee, then joined the staff of the New York Evening Post in 1901. Preferring the life of a freelance writer,...

In 1921 Zona Gale became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in drama. For many, this event constitutes her primary claim to lasting significance as a dramatist, especially considering that her output as a novelist and short-story writer far...

Zona Gale belongs to the relatively large group of American midwestern regionalist authors that includes Sinclair Lewis, Edgar Lee Masters, Willa Cather, Floyd Dell, Sherwood Anderson, Susan Glaspell, Theodore Dreiser, and Ruth Suckow. Like other...

Byline: DUSTIN WEIS Portage Daily Register PORTAGE -- Portage author, activist and humanitarian Zona Gale has achieved a century of renown. And, with Portage's 15th annual "Friendship Village Celebrates Zona Gale" festival today, and her most well-known works circulating in a...

A discussion from the letters Edith Wharton and Willa Cather wrote to Zona Gale emerges on why these women writers placed an importance on remaining separated from other women writers. Their reasons are in part due to a shared belief that if associated together,...