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Suzan-Lori Parks (born May 10, 1963) is an American playwright, screenwriter, musician and novelist. Her play Topdog/Underdog won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2002; Parks was the first African-American woman to receive the award for drama. [1]
May 9, 2024 · Suzan-Lori Parks, American playwright who was the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama (for Topdog/Underdog). Her other plays included Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, The America Play, Venus, In the Blood, The Book of Grace, and White Noise.
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Suzan-Lori Parks is a multi-award-winning American writer/musician and the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Topdog/Underdog which recently enjoyed its twentieth anniversary Broadway revival. The production won both the 2023 Tony Award, (Best Revival Of A Play) and the Outer Critics Circle Award.
Learn about the life and work of Suzan-Lori Parks, the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Explore her plays, novels, screenplays, and adaptations of classic stories.
Apr 15, 2024 · Learn about the life and work of Suzan-Lori Parks, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and novelist who explores African American history and culture in her writing. Discover how she was inspired by James Baldwin, George C. Wolfe, and Spike Lee, and how she created plays such as Topdog/Underdog and Venus.
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