![]() ![]() ![]() In college, Parks studied fiction-writing under acclaimed writer James Baldwin. She entered Mount Holyoke College where she rediscovered her love for poetry and prose, and switched her major from chemistry to English and German literature. An early love for stories from mythology and folklore made Parks dream of becoming a writer, but after her high school teacher dissuaded her, she turned her focus to science.Īfter returning to the U.S., Parks graduated from The John Carroll School in Bel-Air, Maryland in 1981. She and her siblings attended local schools and became fluent in German. In 1974, Parks moved with her family to Germany where her father was stationed. The distinctive dialect she soaked in during her years in West Texas would influence her dialogue when she began writing for the stage. Her father was a colonel in the United States Army, and Parks spent her early childhood in Odessa, Texas while her father served in Vietnam. Parks was born on at Fort Knox in Kentucky to Donald and Francis McMillian Parks. The first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2002) and a pioneer of historically conscious and linguistically complex theater, her work is now taught at drama schools across the country. Though a high school teacher discouraged her from writing because of her poor spelling, Suzan-Lori Parks went on to become one of the most successful playwrights in the United States. ![]()
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