Parks, Suzan-Lori

פרקס, סוזן־לורי

found: 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)

found: 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))