Título: Susan Glaspell
Seção: Early life and career
Background: Susan Keating Glaspell (July 1, 1876 - July 28, 1948) was an American playwright, novelist, journalist and actress. With her husband George Cram Cook she founded the Provincetown Players, the first modern American theatre company. During the Great Depression, she served in the Works Progress Administration as Midwest Bureau Director of the Federal Theater Project. Glaspell is known to have composed nine novels, fifteen plays, over fifty short stories, and one biography.

Conteúdo: Susan Glaspell was born in Iowa in 1876 to Elmer Glaspell, a hay farmer, and his wife Alice Keating, a public school teacher. She had an older brother, Raymond, and a younger brother, Frank. She was raised on a rural homestead just below the bluffs of the Mississippi River along the western edge of Davenport, Iowa, on property bought from the US Government by her great-grandfather following the Black Hawk Purchase. Having a fairly conservative upbringing, "Susie" was remembered as "a precocious child" who would often rescue stray animals. With the family farm increasingly surrounded by residential development, Glaspell's worldview was shaped by the pioneer tales of her grandmother, who told of regular visits by Indians to the farm in the years before Iowa statehood. Growing up directly across the river from Black Hawk's ancestral village, Glaspell was also influenced by the Sauk leader's autobiography; he wrote that Americans should be worthy inheritors of the land. During the Panic of 1893, her father sold the farm and Glaspell moved with her family into the city.  Glaspell was an accomplished student in Davenport's public schools, taking an advanced course of study and giving a commencement speech at her 1894 graduation. By age eighteen she was earning a regular salary as a journalist for a local newspaper, and by twenty, she wrote a weekly 'Society' column which lampooned Davenport's upper class. At twenty-one Glaspell enrolled at Drake University, against the local belief

user: Where did Susan grow up?

assistant: Susan Glaspell was born in Iowa in 1876 to Elmer Glaspell,

user: Who were the members of her family?

assistant: a hay farmer, and his wife Alice Keating, a public school teacher. She had an older brother, Raymond, and a younger brother, Frank.

user: Where did she go to school?

assistant: Glaspell was an accomplished student in Davenport's public schools, taking an advanced course of study and giving a commencement speech at her 1894 graduation.

user: Did she go to college?

assistant: At twenty-one Glaspell enrolled at Drake University, against the local belief that college made women unfit for marriage.

user: What did she study at Drake?

assistant: A philosophy major, she excelled in male-dominated debate competitions, winning the right to represent Drake at the state debate tournament her senior year.

user: When did she graduate?

assistant: A Des Moines Daily News article on her graduation ceremony cited Glaspell as "a leader in the social and intellectual life of the university."

user: What did she do after graduation?

assistant: Des Moines paper as a reporter, a rare position for a woman, particularly as she was assigned to cover the state legislature and murder cases.

user: When did she start writing novels, plays etc?

assistant: where she wrote her first novel, The Glory of the Conquered, published in 1909.