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1. www.poetryfoundation.org › poets › gwendolyn-brooksGwendolyn Brooks | Poetry Foundation

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   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. She was also the first Black woman to hold the role of Consultant in Poetry to the ...

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   Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born on June 7, 1917, in Topeka, Kansas and raised on the South Side of Chicago. She was the first child of David Anderson Brooks and Keziah (Wims) Brooks. [2] Her father, a janitor for a music company, had hoped to pursue a career as a doctor but sacrificed that aspiration to support getting married and raising a ...

3. www.biography.com › authors-writers › gwendolyn-brooksGwendolyn Brooks - Poems, Quotes & Education - Biography

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   Apr 2, 2014 · Gwendolyn Brooks died of cancer on December 3, 2000, at the age of 83, at her home in Chicago, Illinois. She remained a resident of Chicago's South Side until her death. She is buried at Lincoln ...

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   Who is Gwendolyn Brooks?

   • Gwendolyn Brooks at her typewriter. Courtesy of Getty Images. 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.

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   When was Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks born?

   • Brown girl in Bronzeville Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born on June 7, 1917, in Topeka, Kan., but she moved to Chicago with her parents, Keziah and David, when she was 5 weeks old.

   Remembering The Great Poet Gwendolyn Brooks At 100

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   When did Gwendolyn Brooks die?

   • Brooks lived in Chicago until her death on December 3, 2000. Gwendolyn Brooks - 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.

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   Who was Gwendolyn Brooks married to?

   • Brooks married Henry Lowington Blakely Jr. in 1939. The couple had two children, Henry and Nora. Gwendolyn Brooks died of cancer on December 3, 2000, at the age of 83, at her home in Chicago, Illinois. She remained a resident of Chicago's South Side until her death.

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5. www.britannica.com › biography › Gwendolyn-BrooksGwendolyn Brooks | Biography, Poetry, Books, We Real Cool ...

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   Gwendolyn Brooks (born June 7, 1917, Topeka, Kansas, U.S.—died December 3, 2000, Chicago, Illinois) 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 ...

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6. poets.org › poet › gwendolyn-brooksAbout Gwendolyn Brooks | Academy of American Poets

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   Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka on June 7, 1917, to David Anderson Brooks, the son of a runaway slave, and Keziah Corinne (née Wims), and raised in Chicago. Brooks began writing poetry in her teenage years and published her first poem in American Childhood magazine. She sent her early poems to both Langston Hughes and James Weldon Johnson ...

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8. www.npr.org › sections › codeswitchRemembering The Great Poet Gwendolyn Brooks At 100

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   May 29, 2017 · Gwendolyn Brooks Captures Chicago 'Cool'. Brown girl in Bronzeville. Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born on June 7, 1917, in Topeka, Kan., but she moved to Chicago with her parents, Keziah and ...

9. poets.org › text › introduction-gwendolyn-brooksAn Introduction to Gwendolyn Brooks - Academy of American Poets

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   Apr 10, 2017 · An Introduction to Gwendolyn Brooks. 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. Her poems distill the very best aspects of Modernist style with the sounds and shapes of various African-American forms and ...