Ellen Glasgow
American
Miss Glasgow career as a novelist began with The Voice of the People (1897) but it was with Barren Ground (1925) that she attained a national reputation. There followed The Sheltered Life (1932) and in 1943 she gained the Pulitzer Prize for In This Our Life, which was later a movie with Bette Davis. In 1938 Ellen Glasgow became the sixth woman to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In her house on East Main, Ellen Glasgow entertained an array of the mid-century's literati and often compared notes with her fellow novelist James Branch Cabell, like Miss Glasgow a critic from a privileged background. The house is a National Historic Landmark, listed also on the Virginia Landmarks Register.- NRHP, 8 December 1999
Lineage
- Father Frank T Glasgow
- Brother: Frank T Glasgow Jr