Awards spotlight. (News).Suzan-Lori Parks' play Topdog/Underdog won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama From 1918 to 2006, the Drama Prize was unlike the majority of the other Pulitzer Prizes: during these years, the eligibility period for the drama prize ran from March 2 to March 1, to reflect the Broadway , making Parks the first African-American woman to win in the category. The announcement came the morning after Topdog opened on Broadway at the Ambassador Theatre to rave reviews. Premiering at the Public Theatre last summer, the play originally starred Jeffrey Wright as Lincoln and Don Cheadle as Booth. Poet and rapper Mos Def took over the role of Booth when the show moved to Broadway. Parks, a 1985 graduate of Mt. Holyoke College, also received a prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, commonly called the "genius" award, last October. She studied at Hampshire College with writer James Baldwin, whom she credits with encouraging her to write plays. Most recently, Topdog received Tony Award nominations for Best Play and Best Performance by a leading actor (Jeffrey Wright). New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Foundation Awards Playwright Cad Hancock Rux, whose play Talk ran at the Public Theatre this past April, recently won the $25,000 NYFA NYFA New York Foundation for the Arts (New York, NY) NYFA New York Film Academy NYFA New York Fashion Academy (Seattle, WA) NYFA New York Flora Association (Albany, NY) Prize given to an artist of exceptional promise. There are 152 recipients of the fellowship from a pool of 4,000 applicants. Of the 152, Rux was chosen as the prizewinner prize·win·ner n. One that wins a prize. prizewinner n → premiado/a prizewinner prize n → gagnant(e) . Martha Southgate, author of The Fall of Rome, also received a $7,000 fellowship for fiction. 2002 Blackboard Awards Bookseller of the Year--Jawanza Kunjufu, African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. Images, Chicago, IL Fiction--Any Way the Wind Blows by E. Lynn Harris E. Lynn Harris is an Black American author, (b. June 20, 1955). Harris writes primarily about African American men on the down low or in the closet; Harris confirmed that he is a homosexual. He lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas and Atlanta, Georgia. Nonfiction--Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones by Quincy Jones Children's--Grandpa, Is Everything Black Bad? by Sandy Lynne Holeman, illustrated by Lela Kometiani |
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