Susan Glaspell wrote Trifles in 1916, basing this brief, one-act play on the murder of the sixty-year-old John Hossack, which she had covered extensively during her stint as a journalist with the Des Moines Daily News after her graduation from Drake University. She traveled to the scene of the crime in Indianola, Iowa, where the farmer John Hossack was murdered after midnight on December 2, 1900.
Born: 1-Jul-1882 Birthplace: Davenport, IA Died: 27-Jul-1948 Location of death: Provincetown, MA Cause of death: Pneumonia Remains: Buried, Snow Cemetery, Truro, MA
Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Playwright, Novelist
