Suzan-Lori Parks (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
When Suzan-Lori Parks received a 2002 Pulitzer Prize for the play Topdog/Underdog, she became the first African American woman playwright to win the award. Born into a U.S. Army colonel’s family, Parks traveled extensively as a child, spending time in diverse places across the United States and in Germany. Parks graduated cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Mount Holyoke College in 1985, double majoring in English and German. She studied creative writing at Hampshire College with James Baldwin, who encouraged her development as a playwright, and she later spent a year in London...
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