Ola Elizabeth Winslow
Ola Elizabeth Winslow 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 Grant City, 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 and at Wellesley College.
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.
Books
Low Comedy as a Structural Element in English Drama from the Beginnings to 1642 – "originally presented as the author's thesis, University of Chicago, 1922"Jonathan Edwards, 1703–1758: A Biography – 1941 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or AutobiographyMeetinghouse Hill, 1630–1783 – about the Dorchester church and settlement, now in BostonMaster Roger Williams: a biography John Bunyan – biography of John BunyanSamuel Sewall of Boston Portsmouth: the life of a town John Eliot, apostle to the Indians "And plead for the rights of all": Old South Church in Boston, 1669–1969 A Destroying Angel: The Conquest of Smallpox in Colonial Boston;As editorHarper's Literary Museum, compiled by Winslow – Subject: American literature—Colonial period, ca. 1600–1775 – first of a series designed by George Boas, not continued – reissued as Harper's literary museum, a compendium of instructive, entertaining, and amusing matter, selected from early American writings American Broadside Verse from Imprints of the 17th & 18th Centuries, selected and edited with an introduction by WinslowJonathan Edwards: basic writings, selected and edited with a foreword by Winslow The Pilgrim's Progress: with a critical and biographical profile of the author by Ola Elizabeth Winslow, Grolier Edition of the 1820 classic by John Bunyan