Success is always something that you have to recover from.

Norman currently serves on the faculty of the Juilliard School in New York City and is Vice-President of the Dramatists Guild of America. She wrote the book and lyrics for such Broadway musicals as The Secret Garden for which Marsha Norman 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. 'night Mother brought Norman a great deal of recognition.

She received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play 'night Mother. Marsha Norman (born September 21 1947) is an American playwright screenwriter and novelist.