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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.
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.
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 ...
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.
Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy is a public four-year selective enrollment magnet high school and middle school located in the Roseland neighborhood, near the Pullman District on the far south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. [5] Opened in 1998, The school is operated by Chicago Public Schools district.
Gwendolyn Dianne Brooks (January 3, 1939 – April 29, 2005), was an American soul, r&b and jazz singer. With the Three Playmates , Brooks recorded several songs in 1957. She moved to Toronto shortly thereafter.
Randall in 1972. Dudley Randall (January 14, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an African-American poet and poetry publisher from Detroit, Michigan. [1] He founded a pioneering publishing company called Broadside Press in 1965, which published many leading African-American writers, among them Melvin Tolson, Sonia Sanchez, [2] Audre Lorde, Gwendolyn Brooks, [2] Etheridge Knight, Margaret Walker, and ...
Gwendolyn Black (1911–2005), Canadian musician, educator and activist; Gwendolyn Bradley, American soprano; Gwendolyn T. Britt (1941–2008), American Democratic politician; Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000), American poet; Gwendoline Christie, British actress; Gwendolyn J. Elliott (1945–2007), American police officer and founder of Gwen's Girls