Suzan-Lori+Parks

**Suzan-Lori Parks**
// Suzan-Lori Parks (born 10 May 1963) is an 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//.// // Parks was born in Fort Knox, Kentucky into a military family. She spent part of her childhood in Germany and "attended German high school instead of the English speaking school for military children. The experience, in addition to teaching her the fundamentals of language, showed Parks what it feels like to be neither wh // // ite nor black, but simply foreign. She eventually returned to the United States and graduated from The John Carroll School in 1981. She later attended and graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1985 with a B.A. in English and German literature (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa). // Parks' plays include //Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom//, //The// //Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World//, //The America Play// (the opening scene of which inspired //Topdog/Underdog//), //Venus// (about Saartjie Baartman), //In The Blood// and //Fucking A// (which are both a retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel //The Scarlet Letter//). Her 2001 play, //Topdog/Underdog// (a play about family identity, fraternal interdependence, and the struggles of everyday African American life), won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2002.

(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzan-Lori_Parks)

__**Plays:**__ The Sinner's Place Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom Betting on the Dust Commander The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World Devotees in the Garden of Love

//[Parks is married to blues musician Paul Oscher]// __**Links**__ http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~cybers/parks2.html http://www.blacklistproject.com/List/Parks.htm http://www.barclayagency.com/parks.html