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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 ...
Nora Brooks Blakely (born September 8, 1951) [1] is a literary editor and agent. She is the president of Brooks Permissions, [ 2 ] a permissions firm that manages the use of literary works by Gwendolyn Brooks and other authors.
Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood are deeply in love — and they don’t miss a chance to say it. The pair tied the knot in 2005, but they met nearly two decades prior when they were still married ...
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 ...
So in honor of the 77th anniversary of the classic film, take a look at the life lessons we all learned from the iconic movie: SEE ALSO: Pokémon live-action movie is finally a go. 1. Never give up
Malcolm Washington remembers the big "whoa" he felt the first time he experienced August Wilson's play The Piano Lesson a couple years ago. "It was that profound for me that I went from zero to a ...