The Secret Way

by Zona Gale

Overview

The Secret Way, the only book of poetry that Zona Gale published, reveals her search for deeper-than-surface reality. Her short poems have been described as being of delicacy and sensitiveness, expressing the deep, secret urge of the soul toward things that shall not pass.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781078779463
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	02/22/2020
Pages:	104
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

Zona Gale (August 26, 1874 – December 27, 1938) was an American author and playwright. Gale was born in Portage, Wisconsin, which she often used as a setting in her writing. She attended Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, and later entered the University of Wisconsin–Madison, 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. A visit to Portage in 1903 proved a turning point in her literary life, as seeing the sights and sounds of town life led her to comment that her 'old world was full of new possibilities.' Gale had found the material she needed for her writing, and returned to Portage in 1904 to concentrate full time on fiction. She wrote and published there until her 1938 death, but made trips to New York.

In 1928 at the age of fifty-four she married William L. Breese, also of Portage.

Gale died of pneumonia in a Chicago hospital in 1938.