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Suzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006.
Suzan-Lori Parks
American playwright
Also known as: Susan-Lori Parks
Quick Facts
- Originally spelled:
- Susan-Lori Parks
- Awards And Honors:
- Pulitzer Prize
- Notable Works:
- “365 Days/365 Plays”
- “Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)”
- “Getting Mother’s Body”
- “Girl 6”
- “Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom”
- “In the Blood”
- “Native Son”
- “The America Play”
- “The Book of Grace”
- “The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World”
- “The United States vs. Billie Holiday”
- “Their Eyes Were Watching God”
- “Topdog/Underdog”
- “Venus”
- “White Noise”
Suzan-Lori Parks (born May 10, 1963, Fort Knox, Kentucky, U.S.) is an American playwright who was the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama (for Topdog/Underdog). Parks, who was writing stories at age five, had a peripatetic childhood as the daughter of a military officer. She attended Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts (B.A. [cum laude], 1985), where James Baldwin, who taught a writing class there, encouraged her to try playwriting. She wrote her first play, The Sinner’s Place (produced 1984), while still in school. She won Obie Awards for her third play, Imperceptible Mutabilities in ...(100 of 463 words)