Facts about susan glaspell biography
Facts about susan glaspell biography
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Glaspell, Susan (1876–1948)
American short-story writer, novelist, and playwright, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1931, who was a founding member and major contributor to the acclaimed Provincetown Players. Pronunciation: Glas-pell.
Born Susan Keating Glaspell on July 1, 1876, in Davenport, Iowa; died in Province-town, Massachusetts, of viral pneumonia and a pulmonary embolism, on July 27, 1948; second of three children and the only daughter of Elmer S.
and Alice (Keating) Glaspell; attended Davenport public schools; Iowa's Drake University, Ph.B., 1899; graduate study at the University of Chicago, 1903; married George Cram Cook, on April 14, 1913 (died 1924); lived with Norman Matson (a writer), 1925–1931; no children.
Saw publication of first short story (1902); published first novel, The Glory and the Conquered (1909); published best-known short story, "A Jury of Her Peers," which became the basis of her first play, Trifles, produced in the inaugural season o