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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.
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 ...
"If We Must Die" is one of McKay's most famous poems, and the poet Gwendolyn Brooks cited it as "one of the most famous poems ever written". [7] According to Jordanian scholar Shadi Neimneh, the poem "arguably marks the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance because it gives expression to a new racial spirit and self-awareness". [10]
We Real Cool" is a poem written in 1959 by poet Gwendolyn Brooks and published in her 1960 book The Bean Eaters, her third collection of poetry. The poem has been featured on broadsides, re-printed in literature textbooks and is widely studied in literature classes. It is cited as "one of the most celebrated examples of jazz poetry". [1] [2] [3]
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.
Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood — longtime friends of the Carters — honored late President Jimmy Carter at his funeral.. The country singers played a rendition of "Imagine" by John Lennon, a ...
On Thursday, Jan. 9, Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood performed an emotional rendition of John Lennon's "Imagine" in tribute to former President Jimmy Carter at his state funeral. The couple, who ...
Charles Timothy Brooks (1813–1883) Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) Maria Gowen Brooks (c. 1795–1845) Alice Williams Brotherton (1848–1930) Olga Broumas (born 1949) Alice Brown (1856–1948) Harry Brown (1917–1986) Rita Mae Brown (born 1944) Emma Alice Browne (1835–1890) Francis Fisher Browne (1843–1913) William Cullen Bryant (1794 ...