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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
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Birth: | 22nd April, 1873 |
Death: | 21st November, 1945 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Novelist |
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was born in Richmond, Virginia, USA. She was an American novelist. Glasgow's first novel, The Descendant was written in secret and published anonymously. She wrote her second novel, Phases of an Inferior Planet in 1898. She stated that her third novel, The Voice of People was an objective view of the poor-white farmer in politics. Her next novel, The Battle-Ground, sold over 21,000 copies in the first two weeks after publication. She published two more novels, The Builders and One Man in His Time. In 1941 she published In This Our Life, which won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942.
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