" Susan Glaspell describes what was probably the first ever reading of Bound East for Cardiff which took place in the living room of Glaspell and her husband George Cram Cook's home on Commercial Street, adjacent to the wharf ( pictured ) that was used by the Players for their theater.

Susan Keating Glaspell ( July 1, 1876 – July 27, 1948 ) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actress, director, novelist, biographer and poet.

It was Cook who first suggested to Glaspell that she write plays and co-authored her first play Suppressed Desires.

When her work for the Federal Theater Project was finished, Glaspell returned to Cape Cod.

Glaspell was highly regarded in her own time, and was well known as both a playwright and novelist.

Again the main house production was accompanied by a lunchtime production, Glaspell ’ s 30-minute play The Outside, set in a lifesaving station on the outer shore of Cape Cod, with Anne Kirke taking the role originally played by the author, of a woman who has waited 20 years in virtual silence for the return of her seafaring husband.

She is the only Coloradan to have won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, and, in a field dominated by men, was the 4th woman to win the award, after Zona Gale ( 1921 ), Susan Glaspell ( 1931 ), and Zoe Akins ( 1935 ).

* July 27 – Susan Glaspell, American playwright ( b. 1882 )

Glaspell writes in The Road to the Temple, " So Gene took Bound East for Cardiff out of his trunk, and Freddie Burt read it to us, Gene staying out in the dining-room while reading went on.

" Yet it played a significant role in the development of American drama, featuring works by Susan Glaspell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Wallace Stevens, and Theodore Dreiser, as well as launching the career of Eugene O ' Neill.

Many of the notable artists of the time participated in the FTP, including Susan Glaspell who served as Midwest Bureau Director.

The Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company, composed of actors, singers and musicians, has appeared throughout the country in both musical performances and dramatic productions based on Eli Siegel's lectures on Shakespeare, Moliere, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Ibsen, Strindberg, Eugene O ’ Neill, George Kelly, Susan Glaspell, and others.

Glaspell studied for one semester of graduate school at the University of Chicago in 1902.

Glaspell began to publish her fiction in periodicals.

Glaspell also received praise from magazines such as Harpers, the Ladies ' Home Journal, American Magazine, and the Women's Home Companion.

Glaspell spent time in Chicago and is associated with the Chicago Renaissance.

By the time she wrote and published Fidelity, Glaspell had already moved east with Cook, where she married him.

The group produced plays by both Cook and Glaspell, as well as helping to launch the career of Eugene O ' Neill.

Glaspell also acted in some of the plays.

Glaspell knew many of the era's reformers and socialists, including Emma Goldman, John Reed, Louise Bryant, and Upton Sinclair.

In 1922 Glaspell and Cook left their successful theater behind so Cook could write and study in Delphi, Greece.

Glaspell returned to Cape Cod.

The early 1930s were years of low productivity for Glaspell, as she struggled with alcoholism and poor health.

The Ontological Hysteric Incubator Arts project put on two plays Glaspell, " The Verge " in 2009 directed by Alice Reagan, and " Trifles " in 2010 directed by Brooke O ' Harra and Brendan Connelly.

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.