Susan Glaspell

Susan Glaspell (1876–1948) was an American playwright, novelist and journalist from Davenport, Iowa. A reporter covering a murder trial for a Des Moines newspaper, she later turned the case into her one-act play Trifles and the story A Jury of Her Peers. With her husband, George Cram Cook, she founded the Provincetown Players in 1915, the company that first staged Eugene O'Neill, and wrote for it The Outside, Inheritors and The Verge. After Cook's death in Greece she wrote his biography, The Road to the Temple, and in 1931 won the Pulitzer Prize for drama with Alison's House. Her novels include Fidelity, Brook Evans and The Morning Is Near Us.