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Suzan-Lori Parks is a Pulitzer prize-winning playwright whose particular style of tragicomedy includes two plays based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Here she discusses her development as a playwright (despite not being able to spell) and being “haunted” by a particular subject - which compelled her to write plays about two larger-than-life characters: Hawthorne's Hester Prynne and the almost mythological figure of Abraham Lincoln.