

She attended Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, and later entered the University of Wisconsin, from which she received a Bachelor of Literature degree in 1895, and four years later a master's degree.After college, Gale wrote for newspapers in Milwaukee and New York City, for six years.

She became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921Biography: Gale was born in Portage, Wisconsin, which she often used as a setting in her writing.

Zona Gale (AugDecember 27, 1938) was an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright.
