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Marsha Norman

Born

in Louisville, Kentucky, The United States

September 21, 1947

Website

http://marshanorman.com/

Genre

Theater, Literature & Fiction

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Marsha Norman is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play 'night, Mother. She wrote the book and lyrics for such Broadway musicals as The Secret Garden, for which she won a Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, and The Red Shoes, as well as the libretto for the musical The Color Purple and the book for the musical The Bridges of Madison County. She was co-chair of the playwriting department at The Juilliard School until stepping down in 2020. ...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 13,884 ratings · 502 reviews · 63 distinct works • Similar authors

	'night, Mother 3.91 avg rating — 12,588 ratings — published 1983	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Garden by Marsha Norman, Lucy Simon (Composer) 4.24 avg rating — 443 ratings — published 1992 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Getting Out 3.56 avg rating — 264 ratings — published 1979 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fortune Teller 3.60 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1987 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Third and Oak: The Laundromat 3.88 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1980 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Four Plays 4.15 avg rating — 27 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Traveler in the Dark. 3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Samantha: An American Girl Holiday really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marsha Norman, Vol. 1: Collected Works 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Holdup 3.13 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.”
― Marsha Norman, The Fortune Teller

tags: dreams

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“I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used.”
― Marsha Norman, 'night, Mother

tags: boredom, ennui, suicide

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“Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy and more than anything in the world you want to get off and the only reason in the world you don’t get off is it’s still fifty blocks from where you’re going? Well, I can get off right now if I want to, because even if I ride fifty more years and get off then, it’s the same place when I step down to it. Whenever I feel like it, I can get off. As soon as I’ve had enough, it’s my stop. I’ve had enough.”
― Marsha Norman, 'night, Mother

tags: boredom, bus, bus-stop, busstations, ennui, suicide

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What shall we read in October, 2023? Books published in or before 1990.

A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, by Eudora Welty

18 votes 29.5%

Lancelot, by Walker Percy

16 votes 26.2%

'night, Mother, by Marsha Norman

8 votes 13.1%

The Elementals, by Michael McDowell

7 votes 11.5%

Geronimo Rex, by Barry Hannah

6 votes 9.8%

Cheer Leader, by Jill McCorkle

6 votes 9.8%

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