Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1873-1945), American novelist, born in Richmond, Virginia. Although she was a member of a southern aristocratic family, in her novels she rebelled against the idealization of the genteel traditions of the South before the American Civil War (1861-1865). She attempted a realistic interpretation of the South and its problems, showing the contrast between the old society and the new in the period following the war. Glasgow's most important works include The Battle-Ground (1902), Virginia (1913), Barren Ground (1925), The Romantic Comedians (1926), They Stooped to Folly (1929), The Sheltered Life (1932), and Vein of Iron (1935). She won the Pulitzer Prize for her last novel, In This Our Life (1941). Her autobiography, The Woman Within (1954), was published posthumously, as were her Letters (1958) and Collected Stories (1963).