1. Author Biography

2. Susan Glaspell
• American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
• Actress
• Director
• Novelist
• Biographer
• Poet

3. Susan Glaspell
Glaspell was born in 1876 even though
there was a fabricated birth date of 1882 floating
around. She grew up in Davenport, Iowa and
graduated from Drake University in Des Moines.
She graduated in 1899 with a Bachelor’s degree in
1899. After that she worked for a Des Moines
newspaper where she acted as the reporter who
covered the trial of the murder trial of John
Hossack. This trial later became the inspiration
behind her short story, “A Jury of Her Peers,” and
her play Trifles.

4. Susan Glaspell
Glaspell took a part in the feminist
movement. Her works “A Jury of Her Peers”
and Trifles became common place in
women’s studies texts in the United States
and throughout the world.

5. Susan Glaspell
Drama Tickless Time (1918) co-written with
George Cram Cook
Suppressed Desires (1915) co- Bernice (1919)
written with George Cram Cook.
Inheritors (1921)
Trifles (1916) adapted into the short
story A Jury of Her Peers (1917) The Verge (1921)
Close the Book (1917) Chains of Dew (1922)
The Outside (1917) The Comic Artist (1927) co-written with
Norman Matson
The People (1917)
Alison's House (1930) Pulitzer Prize for
Woman's Honor (1918) Drama

6. Susan Glaspell
Novels Glaspell, Susan (1931). Ambrose Holt and
Family. New York: Frederick A. Stokes
Glaspell, Susan (1909). The Glory of the Company.
Conquered. New York: Frederick A. Stokes
Company. Glaspell, Susan (1939). The Morning Is
Near Us. New York: Frederick A. Stokes
Glaspell, Susan (1911). The Visioning. New Company.
York: Frederick A. Stokes Company.
Glaspell, Susan (1942). Norma Ashe.
Glaspell, Susan (1915). Fidelity. Boston:
Small, Maynard. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co..
Glaspell, Susan (1928). Brook Evans. Glaspell, Susan (1945). Judd Rankin's
London: Gollancz. Daughter. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott
Co..
Glaspell, Susan (1929). Fugitive's Return.
London: Gollancz.

7. Short story collections Other
Glaspell, Susan (1912). Lifted Masks: Glaspell, Susan (1926). The Road to the
Stories. London: F.A. Stokes. Temple. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co.
A biography George Cram Cook
Glaspell, Susan (1927). A Jury of Her Peers
(First ed.). London: E. Benn. Glaspell, Susan (1926). Cherished and
Shard of Old. New York: Julian
Her America: "A Jury of Her Peers" and Messner, Inc.
Other Stories by Susan Glaspell. Eds.
Patricia L. Bryan and Martha C.
Carpentier. University of Iowa Press, 2010.

8. Works Cited
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Glaspell
• http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-
coll/MSC/ToMsC800/MsC798/MsC798_glaspellsusan.htm