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The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: “Miss Lulu Bett”
1921 Pulitzer winner “Miss Lulu Bett,” by Zona Gale
Zona Gale Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zona_Gale
Miss Lulu Bett Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Lulu_Bett_(play)
“Writers of Conviction: The Personal Politics of Zona Gale, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Rose Wilder Lane, and Josephine Herbst” by Julia C. Ehrhardt
https://bookshop.org/p/books/writers-of-conviction-the-personal-politics-of-zona-gale-dorothy-canfield-fisher-rose-wilder-lane-and-josephine-herbst-julia-ehrhardt/10745249?ean=9780826264145
Miss Lulu Bett script
https://bookshop.org/p/books/miss-lulu-bett-play-zona-gale/9681076?ean=9781522834496
Miss Lulu Bett (the novel) and Short Stories by Zona Gale
https://bookshop.org/p/books/miss-lulu-bett-and-selected-stories-zona-gale/7862954?ean=9781400095384
New York Times obituary
https://www.nytimes.com/1938/12/28/archives/zona-gale-is-dead-wisconsin-writer-novelist-and-dramatist-won.html
Mint revival review: “Theater in Review; A Debt to Ibsen (And Cinderella)” by Anita Gates, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/03/theater/theater-in-review-a-debt-to-ibsen-and-cinderella.html
A literary visit with the Misses Zona Gale and Lulu Bett
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/a-literary-visit-with-the-misses-zona-gale-and-lulu-bett/
The Other Canon: 10 Centuries of Plays by Women
https://www.americantheatre.org/2015/09/21/the-other-canon-10-centuries-of-plays-by-women/
1921 movie on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU9cbOE9Nqw
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Jan Simpson is a theater journalist who writes the blog Broadway& Me and hosts the BroadwayRadio podcasts Stagecraft and All The Drama. She has twice served as a Pulitzer Prize juror.
