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Susan Glaspell

Born

in Davenport, Iowa, The United States

July 01, 1876

Died

July 27, 1948

Genre

Plays, Literary Fiction

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Susan Keating Glaspell (July 1, 1876 – July 27, 1948) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actress, director, novelist, biographer and poet. She was a founding member of the Provincetown Players, one of the most important collaboratives in the development of modern drama in the United States. She also served in the Works Progress Administration as Midwest Bureau Director of the Federal Theater Project.
Her novels and plays are committed to developing deep, sympathetic characters, to understanding 'life' in its complexity. Though realism was the medium of her fiction, she was also greatly interested in philosophy and religion. Many of her characters make principled stands.
As part of the Provincetown Players, she arranged for the ...more

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Average rating: 3.9 · 12,166 ratings · 1,129 reviews · 146 distinct works • Similar authors

	Trifles 3.87 avg rating — 7,264 ratings — published 1916 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Jury of Her Peers 4.02 avg rating — 3,039 ratings — published 1917 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fidelity 3.95 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 1915 — 98 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Persephone Book of Short Stories by Susan Glaspell (Contributor), Katherine Mansfield (Contributor), Dorothy Canfield Fisher (Contributor) 4.20 avg rating — 276 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Verge: A Play In Three Acts 3.50 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2007 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plays by Susan Glaspell by Susan Glaspell, C.W.E. Bigsby (Editor) 3.77 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2010 — 251 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trifles and a Jury of Her Peers 4.17 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brook Evans 3.84 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 1928 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alison's House 3.44 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1930 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inheritors: A Play In Three Acts (1921) 3.90 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2007 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Susan Glaspell (?)

“We live close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things-it's all just a different kind of the same thing.”
― Susan Glaspell, Trifles

tags: empathy, women-s-strength

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“For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent.”
― Susan Glaspell

tags: denial

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“Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.
Susan Glaspell, author ”
― Susan Glaspell

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June 2021 Short Story Poll

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Which Short Story would you like to read in June?

The Grown Up by Gillian Flynn

24 votes, 55.8%

A Jury Of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell

12 votes, 27.9%

Wish You Were Here by Frank Jones

7 votes, 16.3%

43 total votes

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