Major playwrights: Susan Glaspell

Major Playwrights : Susan Glaspell

Susan Keating Glaspell was born on July 1, 1876 in Davenport, Iowa, America to Elmer Glaspell and Alice Keating. She attended Davenport High School, where she graduated as a valedictorian. Glaspell went to Drake University and then to the University of Chicago. After graduating from university Glaspell worked in the Des Moines Daily News as a reporter. Glaspell abruptly resigned from her job after reporting a murder story about a woman strangling her husband in his bed which would soon be an inspiration for her to write her play "Trifles". With her husband George Cram Cook she founded the Provincetown Players Theater. Her play "Alison's House" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1931. Glaspell died on july 27,1948. Susan Glaspell was known to be one of America's prominent feminist writers.