Gwendolyn M. Parker

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Known forWriting
GenderFemale
Birthday15 January 1950 (76 years old)
Place of birthDurham, North Carolina, USA
Known credits10

Biography

Gwendolyn M. Parker has had various careers including lawyer, business executive, novelist, screenwriter and producer. As a black, gay woman, Parker often needed to pave her own way. She was the first black female admitted to Kent College and the only black female at a prominent NY law firm. Parker discovered the traditional corporate world was not the right fit for her. “I realized I wasn’t going to be happy unless I had ‘all of me’ through the door. I needed to have my intellect, interests, passions and personality present to be fully integrated.” Parker’s present work as a writer has been …