A Critical Biography. During her career as a playwright, Susan
Glaspell was regarded as one of the foremost American talents, yet
her plays and stories are barely known today. Ozieblo sets out to
rectify that situation with a book that combines equal parts
engrossing biography and skillful dissection of Glaspell's
works. Glaspell won the Pulitzer Prize in 1931 for Alison's
House, and she and her husband George Cram Cook founded the
Provincetown Players, the theater company that first performed the
plays of Eugene O'Neill. She was a feminist who nevertheless often
let herself be overshadowed and dominated by her husband, while in
plays such as Trifles and The Verge she deftly explored
the hearts and minds of her sex. I had never heard of Glaspell
before I read this book, but now I'm dying to see one of her plays
performed.
Claire: Only with life that waits have I kept faith.
(with effort raising her eyes to the man)
And only you have ever threatened me.
—Susan Glaspell, The Verge, act 3
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Heidi J. De Vries
