Gwendolyn M. Parker
Personal information
- Known for
- Writing
- Known credits
- 10
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- January 15, 1950
- Place of birth
- Durham, North Carolina, USA
- Also known as
- Gwendolyn Parker
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 her lifelong passion. As a screenwriter and producer she is known for Without a Trace, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Windfall.