In a play by this author, a woman sings "Nearer My God, Thee" as the curtain closes over the corpse of a man she had strangled in a greenhouse. This playwright created an unhinged character who unpacks a tea set, then douses the straw from the package with kerosene to start a fire in her own house. 
In a play by this author, a woman sings "Nearer My God, Thee" as the curtain closes over the corpse of a man she had strangled in a greenhouse. This playwright created an unhinged character who unpacks a tea set, then douses the straw from the package with kerosene to start a fire in her own house. A short play by this author ends with a woman frantically hiding a box in her coat just as the doorknob turns. The Orange Tree Theater, known for championing this author's plays, premiered her posthumously-published play Springs Eternal. Elsa Stanhope resolves to publish the long-withheld poetry of her aunt in a Pulitzer-winning play by this author. In her most famous play, Henry Peters and Lewis Hale ignore the (*) "kitchen things" in a crime scene, which is where their wives discover a canary with its neck broken in the same manner as the murder victim John Wright. She adapted that play into her story "A Jury of Her Peers." For 10 points, name this author of Alison's House and Trifles, who scouted out Eugene O'Neill as founder of the Provincetown Players.
In a play by this author, a woman sings "Nearer My God, Thee" as the curtain closes over the corpse of a man she had strangled in a greenhouse.
Susan Glaspell [or Susan Keating Glaspell]