Research Catalog
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]
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- 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:
- 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.