Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haifi Parks a New Jersey amma ya girma a Ridgefield, Connecticut, inda ya halarci makarantar sakandaren Ridgefield. Ya fara rubutawa da farko don jaridar garinsu, The Ridgefield Press, yana da shekaru 14, yana ɗaukar wasannin makarantar sakandare. Ya halarci Kwalejin Dartmouth, ya kafa jaridar sa, The Sports Weekly (yanzu ba ta da aiki) kuma yana raira waƙa tare da Dodecaphonics, ƙungiyar co-ed a cappella. Duk da yake har yanzu dalibi ne, ya yi aiki a matsayin mai ba da labari ga The New York Times kuma a matsayin mai horarwa ga The Boston Globe. Bayan kammala karatunsa na Phi Beta Kappa daga Dartmouth a shekarar 1996, ya yi aiki a The Washington Post, kuma daga baya jaridar ta dauke shi aiki na cikakken lokaci, wanda ya sanya shi ofishin a Manassas, Virginia. A cikin 1998, ya koma The Star-Ledger kuma ya fara aiki a matsayin marubucin wasanni kuma, daga baya, marubucin labarai. A shekara ta 2007, Crossroads, jerin sassansa guda hudu a kan rikice-rikicen Newark na 1967
ya lashe babbar kyautar kungiyar 'yan jarida ta New Jersey don rahoton kasuwanci. Yanzu yana zaune a Virginia tare da matarsa da ƙananan yara biyu.