Biography of suzan lori parks

American playwright (born 1963)

Suzan-Lori Parks (born May 10, 1963) is an American playwright, screenwriter, musician and novelist.

Biography of suzan lori parks

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] She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023.^[2]

Early life and education

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."^[3] Parks was raised Catholic and attended high school in West Germany, where her father, a career officer in the United States Army, was stationed.^[3][4] The experience showed her "what it feels like to be neither white nor black, but simply foreign".^[3][5] After returning to the U.S., her family rel