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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.
Rivers argues that the theme of gender is the primary theme of Maud Martha. Her review claims the novel is "the story of the average woman in her struggles as daughter, wife, and mother." [5] Rivers further states that Maud Martha explores the common wishes of every woman and the compromises they have to make in accomplishing them.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks returns with a historic look at horseracing and race in her newest book 'Horse.'
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 ...
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000), African-American poet; 30th US Poet Laureate; Helle Busacca (1915–1996), Sicilian Italian poet, writer and painter; Christine Busta (1915–1987), Austrian poet; Matilde Camus (1919–2012), Spanish poet and writer; Aída Cartagena Portalatín (1918–1994), Dominican poet, fiction writer and essayist
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 ...
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Brooks came down to Lexington with her late husband, Tony Horowitz, author of Confederates in the Attic, who was researching a book on Frederick Law Olmsted titled “Spying on the South.”