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| Susan Glaspell. NYPL. |
Author, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, and
Provincetown Players cofounder
Susan Glaspell (1876–1948) wrote the play
Trifles —with women as far more observant of what has happened in a farmhouse than the male law enforcement officials—after covering the
John Hossack murder case for the
Des Moines Daily News in 1900.
Trifles was first produced in 1916. Glaspell then adapted it as the celebrated short story "
A Jury of Her Peers" (1917). Pamela Gaye Walker directed the 2009
short film of
Trifles. Sally Heckel made an
Oscar-nominated version of "A Jury of Her Peers" in 1980, following the version on
Alfred Hitchcock Presents in 1961.
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