Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright gives talk Apr. 3

Date: Apr. 3, 2008
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Weinstein Hall, Brown-Alley Room

Named one of TIME magazine's "100 Innovators for the Next New Wave," Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks blurs the boundaries between the past and the present, the modern and the post-modern in her plays.  "My lectures aren't your typical writer-behind-the-podium evening," says Parks."Audiences call them 'the Suzan-Lori Parks Show'." Her talks are always high energy, with an inspired sense of humor.

Parks was a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant in 2001. Her plays include "Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom," "The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World," "America Play,""Venus" and "In the Blood." She won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 2002 for her play "Topdog/Underdog." Her 2004 novel Getting Mother's Body was a national bestseller and she has worked in conjunctions with Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions on screenplays for "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and "The Great Debaters." 

Parks will give a talk on April 3 in the Brown-Alley Room at 7:30 p.m.

Posted March 24, 2008