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Gwendolyn Brooks, a poet for everyone! Home What Happened on Your Birthday? Search the Registry by Category ... Contact June 7 Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born on this date in 1917. An American poet, she is the first African-American to receive a Pulitzer Prize. Born in Topeka, Kansas, Brooks graduated from Wilson Junior College in 1936. Critics praised her first book of poems, A Street in Bronzeville, (1945) as a moving evocation of life in an urban Black neighborhood. In 1949, Brooks wrote Annie Allen, and was awarded the 1950 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. Since then, she has written a number of selections for readers of all ages. These include Maude Martha (1953), The Bean Eaters (1960), In the Mecca (1968), Riot (1969), Jump Bad (edited): A NewChicago Anthology (1971), Report from Part One: An Autobiography (1972), To Disembark (1981), The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems (1986), Blacks (1987), and Children Coming Home (1991). Brooks is noted for her adaptation of traditional forms of poetry and for her use of short verse lines and casual rhymes. Brooks was named poet laureate for the state of Illinois in 1968, succeeding Carl Sandburg. In 1985 she was appointed poetry consultant to the Library of Congress. In 1990 Brooks became the first American to receive the Society for Literature Award from the University of Thessalonica in Athens, Greece.

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The World Authors Series – Sample Profile Return to World Authors This is an abbreviated profile of BROOKS, GWENDOLYN from World Authors 1900-1950 Here are the first five paragraphs of Brooks' profile with an abbreviated bibliography from World Authors 1900-50 . And for the weekend, Frank Wright and Marcia Davenport also from World Authors 1900-50 BROOKS, GWENDOLYN (June 7, 1917 ), American poet and novelist, wrote: "I was taken from Chicago to Topeka, Kansas, my mother's home, to be born. A month after my birth my mother and I returned to Chicago, where we have lived ever since. (She is Keziah Wims Brooks, my father is David Anderson Brooks. I have one brother, Raymond.) "I loved poetry very early and began to put rhymes together at about seven, at which time my parents expressed most earnest confidence that I would one day be a writer. At the age of thirteen my first poem, Eventide,' was accepted and printed by a then well-known children's magazine, American Childhood . I received in payment six copies of the issue in which it appeared, and a kind, encouraging note from the editor.

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Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917- ) Pathfinder May 1996 The following reference books can be used to get both biographical and critical information about authors. These sources should be used as a starting pointDO NOT base all of your research on material obtained from reference books. Use these sources to become better acquainted with your author; this will allow you to utilize more effectively the sources listed under COMPREHENSIVE LITERARY RESEARCH. These sources are located at the West Campus LRC; they may also be located at other local libraries. BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES Consult the following reference sources to get an overview of your author's life. Contemporary Authors REF Z 1224 .C6 This multivolume biographical source is best accessed via the Contemporary Authors Cumulative Index (REF Z 1224 .C58) Dictionary of Literary Biography REF PS 221 .D5 This multivolume biographical source is best accessed via the Contemporary Authors Cumulative Index (REF Z 1224 .C58) Black Writers REF PN 490 .B53 Encyclopedia of World Literature in the Twentieth Century REF PN 771 .E5

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PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide Paul P. Reuben Chapter 10: Late Twentieth Century - Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) San Francisco Chronicle: Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks dies Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks Page Primary Works ... Home Page Source: Voices from the Gaps Top Primary Works A Street in Bronzeville Annie Allen . Westport, Conn.: Greenwood P,1971. ( Maud Martha, a novel . NY: AMS P, 1974. ( Bronzeville Boys and Girls The bean eaters, poems . NY: Harper,1960. PS3503.R7244 B4 Selected poems In the Mecca; poems Riot . Detroit: Broadside P, 1969. PS3503.R7244 R5 Family pictures . Detroit: Broadside P,1970. PS3503.R7244 F3 The world of Gwendolyn Brooks Jump bad; a new Chicago anthology . Detroit: Broadside P,1971. PS508 N3 B74 A broadside treasury, 1965 1970 . Detroit: Broadside P,1971. PS591 N4 B66 Aloneness . Illustrated by Leroy Foster. Detroit: Broadside P,1971. PS3503.R7244 A68 Report from part one . Prefaces by Don L. Lee and George Kent. Detroit: Broadside P, 1972. PS3503 R7244 Z524 The Tiger Who Wrote White Gloves, or What You Are You Are

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Up More Authors Children Book Authors Cartoonists ... AALBC.com Home Did you know? Brooks won a Pulitzer prize for Annie Allen in 1950. Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks Click here to order books by Gwendolyn Brooks P oet, writer; born in Topeka, Kans. Based in Chicago, she graduated from Wilson Junior College there (1936) and was publicity director for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Chicago (1930s). She taught at many institutions and succeeded Carl Sandburg as poet laureate of Illinois (1968). Her verse narrative Annie Allen (1949) won the first Pulitzer Prize awarded to an African-American woman (1950). (Source: http://search.biography.com/ From 1985-86 Brooks was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She also received an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, the Frost Medal, a National Endowment for the Arts award, the Shelley Memorial Award, and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets and the Guggenheim Foundation. She lived in Chicago until her death on December 3, 2000. RealPlayer Required Hear Kalamu ya Salaam and E. Ethelbert Miller describe why Gwendolyn Brooks is so important to poetry in America

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PROJECT WRITERS CLASSROOM SUBMIT RESOUND OPPORTUNITIES ... by significant dates GWENDOLYN BROOKS Gwendolyn Brooks Photo credits Click to go to: Biography - Criticism Selected Bibliography Related Links BIOGRAPHY - CRITICISM Gwendolyn Brooks was born to Keziah Corine Wims and David Anderson Brooks on June 17, 1917 in Topeka, Kansas. Her family moved to their permanent residence on Champlin Avenue in Chicago when Brooks was four. Shortly after their move (at the age of seven), Brooks began rhyming and by the young age of thirteen she had her first poem published. She became a weekly contributor to the Chicago Defender and attended Wilson Junior College from which she graduated in 1936. In 1937, when Brooks was twenty, her work appeared in two anthologies. Gwendolyn Brooks won her first major award in 1943 at the Midwestern Writers' Conference. In addition to several other honorariums (among which two Guggenheim awards, her appointment as Poet Laureate of Illinois, and the National Endowment for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award are most notable), Brooks was the first African-American writer to both win the Pulitzer Prize (1949) and to be appointed to the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1976). Brooks received more than fifty honorary doctorates from colleges and universities. In 1969, the Gwendolyn Brooks Cultural Center opened on the campus of Western Illinois University. After a lifetime of proficient verse writing, Brooks died of cancer in December 2000. She was 83 years old.

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A Conversation With Gwendolyn Brooks The poetic voice extends to the public the visions of the passionate mind. Gwendolyn Brooks' voice in contemporary black poetry ranges from quiet sensitivity to fierce and angry protest, speaking from the perspective of a black woman in America. Whether quiet or outspoken, Brooks' poetry brings home to the reader a tangibly real chunk of her perception, which is the true justification for her stature as a poet, more than the Pulitzer Prize awarded for her Annie Allen in 1950, her position as Poet Laureate of Illinois, or the other honors which she has received. Beginning in 1945 with A Street in Bronzeville, Gwendolyn Brooks has created a body of work which carries a telling statement of black experience. The tone of the title poem of this first book indicates the nature of Brooks' poetry more than her changing career would at first seem to indicate. Though issued over thirty years ago, the poem openly confronts problems such as abortion in both a frank and personal manner. When dealing with the inextricable web of the personal and the social, an exuberance of spirit and the drive to be and become stand foremost, and anger or tenderness occur as the reaction of this spirit to the situation the poet is confronting. Probably her most well known and often anthologized poem, "We Real Cool," (from

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Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917) Contributing Editor: D. H. Melhem Classroom Issues and Strategies Brooks's work is generally accessible. Occasionally, however, and more likely in some earlier works, like Annie Allen and individual poems like "Riders to the Blood-red Wrath," intense linguistic and semantic compression present minor difficulties. My Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry and the Heroic Voice can be used as a guide to her published works. As holds true for most poetry, Brooks's should be read aloud. In the process, its power (boosted by alliteration), the musicality, and the narrative are vivified. Although I have not had the opportunity to teach Brooks extensively, students seem taken with identity poems like "The Life of Lincoln West" and the didactic "Ballad of Pearl May Lee," which was Hughes's favorite. The narrative aspect seems to be especially appealing. As these are not in this anthology, you may wish to recommend them as extra reading. Major Themes, Historical Perspectives, and Personal Issues

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