Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 - November 21, 1945) was an American novelist from Richmond, Virginia. Beginning in 1897, Glasgow wrote 20 novels, mainly about life in Virginia. Her own education had been rudimentary, a fact Glasgow compensated by reading widely. Today, her novels are regarded as more than just depictions of life in the South.

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Novels

• The Descendant (1897)
• The Voice of the People (1900)
• The Battle-Ground (1902)
• The Deliverance (1904)
• The Romance of a Plain Man (1909)
• Virginia (1913)
• Barren Ground (1925)
• They Stooped to Folly (1929)
• The Sheltered Life (1932)
• Vein of Iron (1935)
• In This Our Life (1941) (Pulitzer Prize 1942)

Autobiography

• The Woman Within (published posthumously in 1954)