Suzan-Lori Parks

Letitia Guran (Longwood College)

Ed. by A Yemisi Jimoh, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.5: African American Writing and Culture of the United States.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Philathia Bolton (University of Akron), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), A Yemisi Jimoh (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University)

Dates

Born 10 May 1963
Activity 1982-ongoing

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Cultural Identities

African American

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Playwright / Dramatist

Resources

Parks' Works

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Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, a leading voice of contemporary American theatre, was born on May 10, 1964 in Fort Knox, Kentucky. Her father was an army colonel, whose career took the family across the United States and abroad (Germany) and her mother was a teacher, who nourished in her three children a love of reading and writing. While Parks completed elementary and secondary education in the United States (following her father’s assignments to North Carolina, California, Kentucky, Texas, Vermont, and Maryland) she enrolled in junior high school in Germany, where her father was stationed at the time. During the four years she spent there, Suzan-Lori Parks had to learn German and she did so successfully. Later, Parks employed this linguistic knowledge creatively in the invention of a new…

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Citation: Guran, Letitia. "Suzan-Lori Parks". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 03 September 2012 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5435, accessed 24 November 2024.]