Major Playwright Susan Glaspell

Susan Glaspell was born in 1882 in Davenport, Iowa. She graduated from Drake University. She was also worked as a journalist. When her stories began appearing in magazines such as Harper's and The Ladies' Home Journal, she gave up the newspaper business. She met George Cook, a talented stage director. In 1915.

Together they founded the Provincetown Players on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The Players were a remarkable gathering of actors, directors and writers. The troupe included Eugene O'Neill and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Glaspell love to write about feminism. She portrays the roles of woman in society and discussed about humanity in her writings. She wrote more than ten plays such as Women’s Honour in 1918 and Bernice in 1919. Glaspell married to George Cook in 1922. Then, she moved to new York City and continued to write. Mostly, he wrote about fiction.