# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marsha-norman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:22:23.209Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marsha-norman"
name: "Marsha Norman"
slug: "marsha-norman"
description: "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 program at The Juilliard School until stepping down in 2020."
tagline: "American playwright, screenwriter and novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marsha_norman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-09-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.67
  momentum:             0.5429864253393666
  historical:           10.96868533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0635568/"
    handle:    "nm0635568"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "مارشا نورمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مارشا نورمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marsha Norman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsha_Norman"
    title: "Marsha Norman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsha_Norman"
    title: "Marsha Norman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%94_%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%9F"
    title: "מרשה נורמן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsha_Norman"
    title: "Marsha Norman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marsha Norman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marsha Norman"
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  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsha_Norman"
    title: "Marsha Norman"
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  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marsha_Norman"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump