Educated at Wayland Academy and the University of Wisconsin, Gale received a degree in literature in 1895. In 1899, she was awarded her Master's degree and embarked on a career in journalism in Milwaukee. She moved to New York and worked for the New York World for some time before deciding to write fiction. In 1906, she published her first novel, Romance Island, which sold very well. In 1908, she created in short stories Friendship Village, a fictional locale loosely based on her home town, which became very popular at the time. In 1912, she returned to her beloved Portage and would live out her life there, continuing to publish up to the time of her death. In 1920, she published Miss Lulu Bett, which she also adapted for the stage. In 1921, the play was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Gale was also heavily involved in women's rights and was active in the creation of Wisconsin's Equal Rights Law in 1921. Her other works include Friendship Village Love Stories (1909), Mother to Men (1911), Neighborhood Stories (1914), Heart's Kindred (1915), Peace in Friendship Village (1919), Faint Perfume (1923), Preface to Life (1926), Portage, Wisconsin and Other Essays (1928), Papa Le Fleur (1933) and Light Women (1937). |
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