Susan Keating Glaspell (1876-1948) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actress, director, bestselling novelist, and a founding member of the Provincetown Players. She also served in the Works Progress Administration as Midwest Bureau Director of the Federal Theater Project. This volume includes Trifles (1916), dealing with the death of a man and the arrest of his wife on suspicion of murder; Bernice (1919), which reveals the character of a dead woman through her effect upon her family and friends; and The Inheritors (1921), dealing with a Midwestern college founded by two liberal families whose third generations clash because one remains liberal but the other has become conservative.