The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Suzan-Lori Parks

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Suzan-Lori Parks

11/21/2006

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2006.148

Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks (1963 - ) is the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for drama for her play, Topdog/Underdog. Parks was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 11/21/2006, in Venice Beach, California. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 4; Total Run Time: 01h 55m 55s

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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 ...