Suzan-Lori Parks Biography

Suzan-Lori Parks biography

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NAME: Suzan-Lori Parks
OCCUPATION: Playwright, Screenwriter
BIRTH DATE: May 10, 1963 (Age: 50)
EDUCATION: The John Carroll School, Mount Holyoke college
PLACE OF BIRTH: Fort Knox, Kentucky
ZODIAC SIGN: Taurus

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Suzan-Lori Parks is an African American playwright and screenwriter. She received the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant in 2001, and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize.

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Suzan-Lori Parks is an African American playwright and screenwriter attended Mount Holyoke College, where James Baldwin, who taught writing there, encouraged her to try playwriting. She received the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant in 2001. Her play Topdog/Underdog, a play about family identity and the struggles of everyday African American life, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2002.