| LC control no. | n 94064278 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3566.A736 |
| Personal name heading | Parks, Suzan-Lori |
| Variant(s) | פרקס, סוזן־לורי |
| Biography/History note | Individual was a Pulitzer Priza awardee and an Obie awardee. |
| Located | United States |
| Birth date | 1964-05-10 |
| Place of birth | Fort Knox (Ky.) |
| Field of activity | Playwriting Fiction Television authorship Motion picture authorship Novels |
| Affiliation | Mount Holyoke College |
| Profession or occupation | Dramatists Novelists Authors Television writers Screenwriters |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | Her The America play, and other works, 1994: CIP t.p. (Suzan-Lori Parks) U.S. copyright file, Mar. 23, 2006 (Parks, Suzan-Lori, 1963- ) Suzan-Lori Parks in person, 2013: ECIP data view (b. 5/10/1963 in Ft. Knox, Kentucky; African-American playwright and screenwriter; she received the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant in 2001, and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Topdog/Underdog) African American National Biography, accessed February 28, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Parks, Suzan-Lori; dramatist, pulitzer prize winner, fiction writer; born 10 May 1964 in Fort Knox, Kentucky, United States; BA in English and German at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts; studied acting at the Drama Studio in London (1986); premiered sections of play Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom at the Brooklyn Arts Council Association Downtown (BACA) and the Brooklyn Fringe Festival, both in New York (1986); produced critically acclaimed Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (1988); a most intellectually provocative work was, The America Play (1994); produced the play Venus, a career turning point (1996); produced the drama Topdog / Underdog (2002); authored numerous screenplays for major artists; produced own film, Anemone Me (1990); authored screenplay for Spike Lee's film Girl 6 (1996); published first novel, Getting Mother's Body (2003); honors include, first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize; two Obie Awards (1990, 1996)) |
| Associated language | eng |
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