Susan Glaspell
Susan Keating Glaspell (born July 1, 1876 (according to other information 1882 ) in Davenport , Iowa , † July 27, 1948 in Provincetown , Massachusetts ) was an American novelist and playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize for her play Allison’s House in 1931 received for theater .
biography
After attending school, she studied for a time at Drake University in Iowa, completed his studies in 1899 and was then 1899-1901 reporter at the daily newspaper Des Moines Daily News .
A few years later she began writing and published her debut novel The Glory of the Conquered in 1909 . Subsequently, another novel, The Visioning , appeared in 1911 and a collection of short stories in 1912 under the title Lifted Masks .
In 1913 she married George Cram Cook, with whom she founded the theater company The Provincetown Players in 1915 . For this group she not only wrote her own plays with Cook, such as Suppressed Desires (1915), but also contributed significantly to the success of Eugene O'Neill , one of the most famous American dramatists , by showing his plays .
Another novel, Fidelity, was published in 1915, followed by several plays such as 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 gained increasing popularity. The Laguna Playhouse had its first major performance in 1922 with Suppressed Desires, and in the same year Louise Treadwell , wife of Spencer Tracy , had one of her first stage appearances in Glaspell's play Chains of Dew with the Provincetown Players.
In 1927 she dedicated a biography to her husband George Cram Cook, who died in 1924, under the title The Road to the Temple . She then devoted herself more intensively to writing and subsequently published another play with The Comic Artist (1927) and then two further novels under the titles Brook Evans (1928) and Fugitive's Return (1929) as well as A Jury of Her Peers (1929) ) a new collection of her short stories.
In 1930 she wrote Allison's House , which is about the life of the poet Emily Dickinson , her most famous play and received the Pulitzer Prize for theater for this in 1931; after Zona Gale, she was only the second female prize winner after 1921.
After she had published yet another novel with Ambrose Holt and Family in 1931 , she then retired from writing for several years. Most recently she published three other novels with the titles The Morning Is Near Us (1939), Norman Ashe (1942) and Judd Rankin's Daughter (1945).
literature
- Gerhard Bach : Susan Glaspell and the Provincetown Players: The Beginnings of Modern American Drama and Theater , (1979)
- Linda Ben-Zvi: Susan Glaspell: Essays on Her Theater and Fiction , ISBN 0472084380 , (2002)
- J. Ellen Gainor: Susan Glaspell in Context: American Theater, Culture, and Politics, 1915-48 . University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2001. ISBN 0472106503
- A. Waterman: Susan Glaspell , biography (1966)
Web links and sources
- Homepage of the Susan Glaspell Society
- Biography (Spartacus Educational)
- About the Author - Susan Glaspell
- Susan Glaspell in nndb (English)
- Books by Susan Glaspell (Google Books)
- Chambers Biographical Dictionary , p. 609, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2
Individual evidence
- ↑ Susan Glaspell: "Trifles" (American Literature-Research and Analysis Web Site) ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Google Books
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Glaspell, Susan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Glaspell, Susan Keating (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer and playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1876 or 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Davenport , Iowa |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 27, 1948 |
| Place of death | Provincetown , Massachusetts |