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  1. Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community.

  2. Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the most influential and widely read 20th-century American poets. The author of more than 20 books, she was highly regarded even during her lifetime and had the distinction of being the first Black poet to win the Pulitzer Prize.

  3. Apr 2, 2014 · Gwendolyn Brooks was a postwar poet best known as the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for her 1949 book 'Annie Allen.'

  4. 4 days ago · Gwendolyn Brooks was one of the most influential poets of the 20th century and the first African American poet to win the Pulitzer Prize (1950). Her works deal with the everyday life of urban African Americans, combining Modernist techniques with Black idioms and phrasings.

  5. Pulitzer Prize winner Gwendolyn Brooks, who wrote more than twenty books of poetry in her lifetime, was the first black woman appointed Poet Laureate of the United States.

  6. Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a social justice champion, is the unofficial eternal poet laureate of Chicago.

  7. Apr 10, 2017 · Since she began publishing her tight lyrics of Chicago’s great South Side in the 1940s, Gwendolyn Brooks has been one of the most influential American poets of the twentieth century.

  8. Few American writers have been as influential, acclaimed, and consistently subversive as Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000). Best known for her shorter lyrics, such as “We Real Cool ”—a poem which first appeared in Poetry magazine in 1959—Brooks produced a prolific body of work in her lifetime, ranging from meditations on mass riots to ...

  9. Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community.

  10. poetrysociety.org › site › people-redirectGwendolyn Brooks

    Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas in 1917. She began publishing poetry in the 1940s in national magazines such as Harper's and Poetry, and her first book A Street in Bronzeville appeared in 1945. Her second collection of poetry, Annie Allen, published in 1949, received the Pulitzer Prize.

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