She then began to rebuild her life and career through participating in the Federal Theater Project and later advocating the fight to defeat fascism.
Susan Glaspell first began to write stories as a grammar-school student in Davenport and worked briefly there as a reporter before going on to Drake University, where she was a frequent contributor to the college literary magazine and a prize-winning orator. After graduating with a Ph.B. in 1899, she covered the statehouse beat for the Des Moines Daily News, but returned to Davenport in 1901 to concentrate on free-lance writing. She spent a brief time in Chicago, studying literature at the University of Chicago during the summer of 1902, and again returned to Davenport where she continued writing short stories and began her first novel, The Glory of the Conquered (1909). She also became involved with a group of writers and activists which included novelist and critic Floyd Dell, then a teenager; the socialist writer George Cram Cook; and his feminist wife, Mollie.
After Glaspell became romantically involved with Cook, their relationship provoked the disapproval of their families and friends.
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