Suzan-Lori Parks papers

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Suzan-Lori Parks papers

1967-2003

eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 11634158

Houghton Library

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Parks, Suzan-Lori, 1963-

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Suzan-Lori Parks (born May 10, 1963) is an American playwright, screenwriter, musician and novelist. Her 2001 play Topdog/Underdog won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2002; Parks is the first African American woman to achieve this honor for drama. Parks was born in Fort Knox, Kentucky. She grew up with two siblings in a military family. Parks enjoyed writing poems and songs and created a newspaper with her brother, called the "Daily Daily". Parks attended high school in West Germany, where her ...