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Susan Glaspell, "A Jury of Her Peers"

BIOGRAPHY

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[From The Norton Introduction to Literature]

(1876–1948)

Born and raised in Davenport, Iowa, Susan Glaspell graduated from Drake University and worked on the staff of the Des Moines Daily News until her stories began appearing in magazines such as Harper's and the Ladies' Home Journal. In 1911, Glaspell moved to New York City, where, two years later, she married the theater director George Cram Cook.In 1915, they founded the Provincetown Playhouse on Cape Cod, an extraordinary gathering of actors, directors, and playwrights, including Eugene O'Neill, Edna St.Vincent Millay, and John Reed; among the many plays she wrote to be performed by this company are Trifles (1916), The Verge (1921), Bernice (1924), and Alison's House (1931), a Pulitzer Prize–winning drama based on the life of Emily Dickinson.Glaspell spent the last part of her life in Provincetown, devoting herself to writing fiction; among her books are Visioning (1911), Lifted Masks: Stories (1912), Fidelity (1915), and The Morning Is Near Us (1940).

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