Ellen Glasgow (April 22, 1873 – November 21, 1945) was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942. She was born in Richmond, Virginia, and was the daughter of Francis Thomas Glasgow and Anne Jane Gholson. She was educated at home and at private schools in Richmond and attended classes at the College of William and Mary. Glasgow began writing at an early age and published her first novel, The Descendant, in 1897. She went on to write more than twenty novels, including The Battle-Ground (1902), The Deliverance (1904), The Romantic Comedians (1926), and In This Our Life (1941). Her works often explored the changing roles of women in the South during the early twentieth century. Glasgow was a member of the Southern Literary Renaissance and was friends with many of the leading writers of the time, including William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, and Thomas Wolfe. She was also a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Glasgow died in Richmond in 1945.
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