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On July 1, , Susan Keating Glaspell was born in the town of Davenport, Iowa to Alice and Elmer Glaspell, the latter of which sold hay and animal feed for a living. She grew up with one older and one younger brother, and although her father was a devout member of the Disciples of Christ, he maintained a weakness for swearing and horse-racing. When Susan was young, he allowed her to accompany him to homesteads in Iowa and the surrounding states, giving Glaspell a favorable impression of the people who lived and farmed in the region, which she later explored in her fiction.
An intelligent child, Susan considered entering the teaching profession after high school but chose instead to become a local reporter in the hopes of becoming a writer. She then graduated with a philosophy degree from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and began to write for the Des Moines Daily News in While working as a journalist, she wrote short stories for Youth's Companion, selling a total of forty-three stories over the next two decades, many of which were set in Freeport, the fictional version of Davenport. In , she published
Susan Glaspell
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Born July 1, , in Davenport, Iowa, Susan Glaspell published news articles and short stories even before entering Drake University, from which she received a degree in philosophy. Over the course of her career, she wrote more than fifty short stories, nine novels, fourteen plays, and a biography of her husband, George Cram (Jig) Cook.
It is difficult to imagine the Provincetown Players () without Glaspell, a founding member who acted as well as wrote plays and served on the group’s Executive Committee. Eleven works by Glaspell -- five one-acters, four long plays, and two short comedies co-authored with Cook – appeared on the Provincetown stage.
Glaspell’s career in the theater began with Suppressed Desires, a spoof of Freudianism that she composed with Cook. In the summer of Suppressed Desires joined Neith Boyce’s Constancy as the first offerings by the group of friends who would later form the nucleus of the Provincetown Players. This was followed in rapid succession by, among other works, Trifles, ThePeople, Close the Book, The Outside, and Woman’s Honor.
Although the Provincetown Players staged only a
Susan Glaspell
Susan Glaspell was an 18th-century novelist, actor, playwright, and journalist. She founded the first modern American Theatre company, the Provincetown Company, in collaboration with her husband, George Cram Cook.
Also, Glaspell gained wide popularity for her short stories that were about fifty in number. Then she also tried her hands on the other genres and wrote a biography, nine novels, and fifteen plays.
Glaspell’s works mostly explore contemporary issues of social life like gender and ethics while showing the profound sympathetic nature of the human soul. She also won the Pulitzer Prize in for her play “Alison’s House”.
Her stories are set in the Midwest, her native land, and in a semi-biography, explore social issues.
When her husband died in Greece, Glaspell returned to the US with her children and joined the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression. There she worked in the Federal Theatre Project as Midwest Bureau Director.
During her life, Glaspell remained an acclaimed writer but her works became less attractive after her death and went out of print.
In the 20th-century, the critical evaluation of the contributions of wom
Susan Glaspell
Susan Keating Glaspell
Pen Name: Susan Glaspell
Born: July 1,
Died: July 27,
Susan Glaspell ( - ) 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 (), 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 school at the state debates her senior year. (The photo featured in this biographical sketch is her graduation picture.
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