Suzan-Lori Parks – Confidence To Find Your Own Way

Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks’ career is rolling at high speed. Last year she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama for ‘Topdog/Underdog.’ On May 6, Random House will publish her first novel, ‘Getting Mother’s Body,’ about a family’s quest to dig up the jewelry supposedly buried in the grave of one of its members. The first printing is 100,000 copies.” And her new play? Her new play has a name that ensures no mainstream paper will ever publish the title.