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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Suzan-Lori Parks.

Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Suzan-Lori Parks.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

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Additional Authors
  • Parks, Suzan-Lori
  • Brock, Paul, 1932-
  • Stearns, Scott
  • HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Description
1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 55 min., 55 sec.)) : sound, color.
Summary
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.
Alternative Title
  • History Makers video oral history with Suzan-Lori Parks
  • Suzan-Lori Parks
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Internet videos.
  • Interviews.
  • Nonfiction films.
  • Oral histories.
Credits (note)
  • Videographer, Scott Stearns.
OCLC
998758235
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Suzan-Lori Parks.
Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
Playing Time
015555
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
video file
Performer
Paul Brock, interviewer.
Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Event
Recorded Venice Beach, California 2006 November 21.
Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Indexed Term
Playwright.
Added Author
Parks, Suzan-Lori, interviewee.
Brock, Paul, 1932- interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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