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Profile of Suzan-Lori Parks
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Suzan-Lori Parks |
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10th May 1963 |
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Kentucky, USA |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Suzan-Lori Parks (1964 - ) is an African-American playwright and novelist. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Mount Holyoke College in 1985 with a B.A. in English and German literature.
While a student at Mount Holyoke, Parks took a writing class with Five Colleges faculty member James Baldwin. At his behest, she began to write plays.
Parks wrote her first screenplay for the 1996 Spike Lee movie called Girl 6 (the story of an aspiring actress who works for a phone-sex hotline). Her most recent teleplay is Their Eyes Were Watching God based upon the novel by Zora Neale Hurston.
She is the author of the novel Getting Mother's Body. Her other plays include: The America Play (the opening scene of which inspired Topdog/Underdog, a play about family identity, fraternal interdependence, and the struggles of everyday African American life), Venus, In the Blood and Fucking A.
Awards and Nominations
Winner:
- 2002 Pulitzer Prize Drama for Topdog/Underdog
- 2001 MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant"
- 1995 - 1996 Obie Award Playwriting: Venus
- 1989 - 1990 Obie Award Best New American Play: Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom
Nominations:
- 2000 Pulitzer Prize Drama for In The Blood
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