Susan Glaspell

Susan Keating Glaspell ( born July 1, 1876 ( according to other sources 1882) in Davenport, Iowa, † July 27, 1948 in Provincetown, Massachusetts) was an American novelist and playwright who for their play Allison 's House 1931 Pulitzer Prize received for the theater.

Biography

After school she studied for a time at Drake University in Iowa, completed his studies in 1899 and was then 1899-1901 as a reporter for the daily newspaper Des Moines Daily News.

A few years later she began her work as a writer and published in 1909 her debut novel, The Glory of the Conquered. In the following years was published in 1911 with The Visioning another novel and 1912 under the title Lifted Masks a collection of short stories.

In 1913 she married George Cram Cook with it 1915 theater group, The Provincetown Players founded. For this group she co-wrote with Cook not only own theater pieces such Suppressed Desires (1915), but contributed significantly through demonstrations of its pieces contributed to the success of Eugene O'Neill at one of the renowned American playwright.

1915 appeared with Fidelity yet another novel and then in rapid succession several plays such Trifles (1916 ), Close the Book (1917 ), A Woman 's Hour (1918 ), Tickless Time ( 1919), Bernice (1919), Inheritors ( 1921) and The Verge ( 1921). During this time she became more notoriety. The Laguna Playhouse in 1922 with Suppressed Desires the first major performance and in the same year had Louise Treadwell, wife of Spencer Tracy, one of her first stage performances in Glaspells play Chains of Dew with the Provincetown Players.

Your late husband George Cram Cook in 1924, she devoted a biography in 1927 under the title The Road to the Temple. Then they went back to intensive to writing and published in connection with The Comic Artist (1927 ) is another play and then under the titles Brook Evans (1928) and Fugitive's Return ( 1929) two other novels as well as with A Jury of Her Peers (1929 ), a new collection of her short stories.

In 1930 she wrote with Allison's House, which was about the life of poet Emily Dickinson, her best-known play, and received for this 1931 Pulitzer Prize for drama and was by Zona Gale only the second female winner after 1921.

After having Ambrose Holt and Family still published in 1931 another novel, she pulled back then for several years by the writing. Last published three of her other novels with the titles The Morning Is Near Us ( 1939), Norman Ashe (1942 ) and Judd Rankin 's Daughter ( 1945).