MARSHA NORMAN (Bookwriter) won the Pulitzer Prize for her play, ‘night, Mother and a
Tony Award for her book of the Broadway musical, The Secret Garden. Ms.
Norman is co-chair, with Christopher Durang, of the Playwriting Department of
the Juilliard School and vice president of the Dramatists Guild of America. Her
other plays include Getting
Out, Traveler in the Dark, Sarah and Abraham, Trudy Blue and Last
Dance. Her published work includes Four Plays, Vol. I: Collected Plays of
Marsha Norman and a novel, The Fortune Teller. She has numerous film and TV credits, Grammy and Emmy
nominations, and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the
Rockefeller Foundation, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
and the Fellowship of Southern Writers. She is a native of Kentucky who lives
in New York City and Long Island with her two children.