Family is just accident, Jessie. It's nothing personal, hon. They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

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.