GALE, ZONA (1874-1938), American author, was born at Portage, Wis., on Aug. 26, 1874. After her graduation from the University of Wisconsin, she did newspaper work in Milwaukee, and in 1901 joined the staff of the New York World. After 1904 she gave her full time to writing, publishing among other books The Loves of Pelleas and Etarre (19o7), Friendship Village (19o8), Birth (1918), Miss Lulu Bett (1920), The Secret Way, verse (1921), Faint Perfume (1923), Preface to a Life (1926). The publication of Miss Lulu Bett first directed interest to her as a promising novelist of the new realistic school, and she was awarded a Pulitzer prize for her play, Miss Lulu Bett, dramatized from the book, and produced in New York in 192o.