Ola Elizabeth Winslow, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ola Elizabeth Winslow

American colonial historian, professor of English

Date of Birth: 05-Jan-1885

Place of Birth: Missouri, United States

Date of Death: 27-Sep-1977

Profession: writer, historian, author, biographer, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Ola Elizabeth Winslow (January 5, 1885 in Grant City, Missouri – September 27, 1977 in Damariscotta, Maine) was an American historian, biographer, and educator.
She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1941 for her biography of Jonathan Edwards, an 18th-century American theologian whose basic writings she edited for Signet Classics. Born in Missouri, Winslow was an instructor at College of the Pacific from 1909 to 1914, when she earned a master's degree from Stanford University.
She was professor of English at Goucher College in Baltimore (1914–1944) and at Wellesley College (1944–1977, emeritus after 1950).Winslow earned a Ph.D.
from the University of Chicago in 1922 with a thesis that was later published as a book with the title Low Comedy as a Structural Element in English Drama from the Beginnings to 1642.Winslow died in Maine at age 92.