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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.
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 ...
By Lexington, Brooks does not mean our fair city, but the horse named for it, Lexington, one of the most famous race horses and sires of all time. She was at a lunch near her home in Massachusetts ...
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
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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.