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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.
Maud Martha is a 1953 novel written by Pulitzer Prize winning African American poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Structured as a series of thirty-four vignettes, it follows the titular character Maud Martha a young Black girl growing up in late 1920's Chicago.
Annie Allen is a book of poetry by American author Gwendolyn Brooks that was published by Harper & Brothers in 1949. The book tells in poetry about the life of Annie Allen, an African-American girl growing to adulthood. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950 [1] and made Brooks the first African American to ever receive a Pulitzer ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks returns with a historic look at horseracing and race in her newest book 'Horse.' Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks returns with a ...
"Horse," by Geraldine Brooks, explores the unwritten history of America’s most famous racehorse—and how far we still have to go in confronting systemic racism. Geraldine Brooks on Racing—and ...
Riding horses, donkeys or mules, on foot or by rowboat, [1] the librarians — various known as "book women", "book ladies" or "packsaddle librarians" — would follow long, mountainous routes, riding hundreds of miles each week in difficult weather and trail conditions, in dozens of rural counties where there were no libraries at all. [2]
Geraldine Brooks' “Horse,” a novel about race and forgotten history, and Robert Samuels' and Toluse Olorunnipa's “His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial ...
The Civil Rights time period also saw the rise of female Black poets, most notably Gwendolyn Brooks, who became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize when it was awarded for her 1949 book of poetry, Annie Allen. Along with Brooks, other female poets who became well known during the 1950s and '60s are Nikki Giovanni and Sonia Sanchez.