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Susan Glaspell

Susan Keating Glaspell (1 July 1876 – 27 July 1948) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actress, director, and bestselling novelist. She was a founding member of the Provincetown Players, one of the most important collaboratives in the development of modern drama in the United States. She also served in the Works Progress Administration as Midwest Bureau Director of the Federal Theater Project.

Her novels and plays are committed to developing deep, sympathetic characters, to understanding 'life' in its complexity. Though realism was the medium of her fiction, she was also greatly interested in philosophy and religion. Many of her characters make principled stands.

As part of the Provincetown Players, she arranged for the first ever reading of a play by Eugene O’Neill.

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 Plays


 * //Suppressed Desires // (1915) co-written with George Cram Cook
 * //Trifles // (1916) adapted into the short story //A Jury of Her Peers// (1917)
 * //Close the Book // (1917)
 * //The Outside // (1917)
 * //The People // (1917)
 * //Woman's Honor //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> (1918)
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Tickless Time //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> (1918) co-written with George Cram Cook
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Bernice //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> (1919)
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Inheritors //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> (1921)
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The Verge //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> (1921)
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Chains of Dew //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> (1922)
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The Comic Artist //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> (1927) co-written with Norman Matson
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Alison’s House //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> (1930) Pulitzer Prize for Drama

External Links


 * [|Susan Glaspell] at the [|Internet Broadway Database]
 * [|Susan Glaspell] at the [|Internet Movie Database]
 * [|Works by Susan Glaspell] at [|Project Gutenberg]
 * [|Susan Glaspell Society Website]
 * [|Susan Glaspell at the Findagrave.com database]
 * two portrait studies of Glaspell by [|Nickolas Muray]; [|photo #1], [|photo #2]