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Susan Glaspell
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Noelia Hernando-Real
  • LAST REVIEWED: 26 July 2022
  • LAST MODIFIED: 26 July 2022
  • DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199827251-0073

Introduction

Susan Glaspell (b. 1876–d. 1948) was among the most celebrated writers of the first half of the twentieth century. Cofounder of the Provincetown Players, the Greenwich Village little theater that revolutionized US drama in the 1910s and 1920s, she wrote fifteen plays and achieved critical acclaim as a dramatist of ideas. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1931 and directed the Midwestern Play Bureau of the Federal Theatre Project from 1936 to 1938. Glaspell was also an accomplished fiction writer. Over her life, she published more than sixty short stories, which came out in magazines ranging from Harper’s Bazaar and Munsey’s to Ladies’ Home Journal and Black Cat. In 1912 thirteen of her early stories came out in the collection Lifted Masks, which the American Library Association praised for its “well constructed stories of decided originality.” Glaspell also published nine novels, many of which were pos

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Susan Glaspell

American dramatist

Susan Keating Glaspell (July 1, 1876 – July 28, 1948) was an American playwright, novelist, journalist and actress. With her husband George Cram Cook, she founded the Provincetown Players,[1] the first modern American theatre company.[2]

First known for her short stories (fifty were published), Glaspell also wrote nine novels, fifteen plays, and a biography.[3] Often set in her native Midwest, these semi-autobiographical tales typically explore contemporary social issues, such as gender, ethics, and dissent, while featuring deep, sympathetic characters who make principled stands. Her 1930 play Alison's House earned her the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.[4]

After her husband's death in Greece, she returned to the United States. During the Great Depression, Glaspell worked in Chicago for the Works Progress Administration, where she was Midwest Bureau Director of the Federal Theater Project. Although a best-selling author in her own time, after her death Glaspell attracted less interest and her books went

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Susan Glaspell

Susan Keating Glaspell
Pen Name: Susan Glaspell
Born: July 1, 1876
Died: July 27, 1948

Susan Glaspell (1876 - 1948) co-founded the first modern American theater company, the Provincetown Players, and was a Pulitzer prize-winning playwright, actress, novelist, and journalist. Most of her nine novels, fourteen plays and over fifty short stories are set in Iowa, where she was raised. Trifles (1916), her one-act play based on the murder trial she covered as a young reporter, is considered one of the great works in American theater as well as an important piece of feminist literature.

Glaspell was raised to value hard work on a farm in rural Davenport, Iowa. She often wrote about being worthy inheritors of the land, and was greatly influenced by the writings of Black Hawk, the Sauk American Indian chief, on whose former land she was raised. Susan was a precocious student, becoming a journalist at 18, and writing her own column at 20, using it to poke fun at Davenport's upper-class. She went to Drake University and excelled as a debater, representing the sch

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