The HistoryMakers video oral history with Suzan-Lori Parks.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016].
Description1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 55 min., 55 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2006.148
Subjects

Other author/creatorParks, Suzan-Lori interviewee.
Other author/creatorBrock, Paul, 1932- interviewer.
Other author/creatorStearns, Scott, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with Suzan-Lori Parks
Portion of title Suzan-Lori Parks
Abstract Theatrical playwright Suzan-Lori Parks was born on May 10, 1963 in Fort Knox, Kentucky. She attended college at Mount Holyoke, where she graduated with her B.A. degree in English and German literature in 1985. She moved to London and began her career as a playwright. In 1987, her script Betting on the Dust Commander was produced in New York, and two years later, her play Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom was awarded an Obie Award for Best Off-Broadway Play. In 1994, her script for The American Play was produced. In 2001, Parks' play Topdog/Underdog was released to critical acclaim. She became the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. The following year, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship of $500,000. In 2003, Parks published Getting Mother's Body, her first novel. Her 2014 play, Father Comes Home From the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3, was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize Award.
CreditsVideographer, Scott Stearns.
Performer Paul Brock, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Venice Beach, California 2006 November 21.
Source of descriptionVendor-supplied metadata.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formInterviews.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Stock numberA2006.148 HistoryMakers

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