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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 also edited for Signet Classics.
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.
She 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 was born in Grant City, Missouri on January 5, 1885 and died in Damariscotta, Maine, aged about 92.
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