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BETTING ON THE DUST COMMANDER

Parks, Suzan-Lori

BETTING ON THE DUST COMMANDER

New Yrok: The New Dramatists' Plays published by the Playwrights' Press.
  • $545
Suzan-Lori Parks. BETTING ON THE DUST COMMANDER (PRACTICE MAKES PRACTICE MAKES). New York: The New Dramatists' Plays published by the Playwrights' Press. No date, but probably 1991. This is her first published play, and its first performance, with its cast of two, was produced in 1987 by Suzan-Lori Parks in the Lower East Side at a bar called the Gas Station. It ran for three nights. In contrast, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2002 for her play Topdog / Underdog. The first Pulitzer for a African-American woman playwright. The book is in bright, wonderful condition, in bright orange wrappers printed in black with no markings of any kind in the 28-page text. On close examination, there is a very light fold in the upper right hand corner of the front wrapper. Parks was born in 1953 in Fort Knox, Kentucky and traveled with her family to various army postings. She attended high school in Germany and was encouraged to apply to Mount Holyoke College. There she was introduced to James Baldwin who mentored her literary development. This is a very scarce book, and quite important.
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