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Voices From The Gaps: Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas, on June 7, 1917. While still an infant, she and her family moved to Chicago. She began writing at 11 when she mailed several poems to a community newspaper in Chicago to surprise her family.
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 2000). a web guide toGwendolyn Brooks from literaryhistory.com.
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Extractions: Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000) a web guide to Gwendolyn Brooks from literaryhistory.com main page 20th century outline authors, alphabetical 19th century authors General Articles http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/brooks/brooks.htm An introduction to Gwendolyn Brooks, plus excerpts of reputable critical discussions of some poems, from the Modern American Poetry Site (Univ. of Illinois). http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/brooks_g.htm A fairly lengthy biography of Brooks, from the Gale Group. http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/kennedycompact_awl/chapter10/deluxe.html An introduction to Gwendolyn Brooks's life and writing, from Longman Publishers. http://www.black-collegian.com/african/painted-voices/brooks.shtml A very brief biography of Gwendolyn Brooks from the Black Collegian Online http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2278/3_23/54925299/p1/article.jhtml "Double Consciousness, Modernism, and Womanist Themes in Gwendolyn Brooks's 'The Anniad,'" Fall, 1998, by Yemisi Jimoh. http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=166
Museum Of American Poetics - Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks (19172000). Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas, onJune 7, 1917. While still an infant, she and her family moved to Chicago.
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Extractions: A Street in Bronzeville. Five years later, in 1950, she became the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Annie Allen. President John F. Kennedy invited her to read at the Library of Congress in 1962, and in 1985 she was appointed poetry consultant to the library. In 1968 she was named poet laureate of Illinois. In 1989, Brooks received a lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts. She was named the 1994 Jefferson Lecturer by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the highest honor bestowed by the federal government for work in the humanities. Along with her husband, Henry Blakely, who she married in 1938, she lived in a kitchenette apartment in Chicago's South Side where they raised two children. Gwendolyn Brooks promoted an understanding of black culture through her candid, compassionate poetry. She wrote hundreds of poems, had more than 20 books published. She died from cancer on December 3, 2000. Tributes Gwendolyn Brooks, Poet Nurturer
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks. Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas in 1917.She graduated from Wilson Junior College in 1956 and published
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Extractions: Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas in 1917. She graduated from Wilson Junior College in 1956 and published her first book of poetry, A Street in Bronzeville , in 1945. Brooks is the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize, which she won in 1950 for her poem, Annie Allen . Her work has always concerned the plight of the African American in the United States but in 1968, she became more outspoken in her criticism of racism and prejudice. Brooks is also well known for her extensive work in distributing Black Poetry and also as a symbol of strength for African American women. Brooks has achieved a number of the highest awards given for literature, as well as appointed political positions, such as Poet Laureate for Illinios and poetry consultant to the Library of Congress. One of Brooks' most famous works is entitled, We Real Cool , subtitled The Pool Players. Seven at the Green Shovel "We real cool. We left school. We lurk late. We strike straight. We sing sin. We thin gin. We jazz june.
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her work the debilitating effects of poverty and prejudice, the resourcefulnessas well as shortcomings of human characte brooks gwendolyn Pulitzer Prize
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Gwendolyn Brooks, Poet Laureate of Illinois since 1968, is the first black writerto have won the Pulitzer Prize her second book of poetry, Annie Allen, was
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Painted Voices - Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks was one of ten women to receive theMademoiselle Merit Award for Distinguished Achievement in 1945.
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Extractions: here Gwendolyn Brooks Born on June 17, 1917 in Topeka, KS, Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks has earned more than 50 honorary degrees. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Brooks was also poet laureate for the State of Illinois. Brook's writings reflect changes in her life and society, as seen in her autobiography entitled Autobiography: Report from Part One, which was published in 1972. Gwendolyn Brooks was one of ten women to receive the Mademoiselle Merit Award for Distinguished Achievement in 1945. Additionally, in 1950, she became the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry when she won the award for Annie Allen. In 1969 she was nominated for a National Book Award. In April 1989, she participated in National Library Week in Hammond and Gary, Indiana. During that same year, she also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks has made many achievements throughout her career asa poet. Gwendolyn Brooks. Date of Birth 1917 Date of Death ?
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Gwendolyn Brooks - The Academy Of American Poets
gwendolyn brooks The Academy of American Poets presents biographies, photographs,selected poems, and links as part of its online poetry exhibits.
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Brooks, Gwendolyn - NYU Author Profile
Felice Aull offers a brief biographical profile and critical analyses of five works by this Pulitzer Prizewinning poet. ©New York University. 1993-2003. brooks, gwendolyn
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Extractions: Comments/Inquiries On-Line Author Site Sex Female National Origin United States of America Ethnic Origin African-American Era Mid 20th Century Born Died Awards Pulitzer Prize, National Institute of Arts and Letters, Lifetime Achievement Awards from National Endowment for the Arts and from The National Book Foundation. Annotated Works The Bean Eaters
A Gwendolyn Brooks Page
Offers nearly twenty poems, and biographical details on the award winning AfricanAmerican poet. THE CIRCLE ASSOCIATION'S. gwendolyn brooks Page. CONTENTS and POETRY
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Gwendolyn Brooks - The Academy Of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets presents a biography, photograph, and selected poems.
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Extractions: poetry awards poetry month poetry exhibits about the academy Search Larger Type Find a Poet Find a Poem Listening Booth ... Add to a Notebook Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1917 and raised in Chicago. She is the author of more than twenty books of poetry, including Children Coming Home (The David Co., 1991); Blacks To Disembark The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems Riot In the Mecca The Bean Eaters Annie Allen (1949), for which she received the Pulitzer Prize; and A Street in Bronzeville (1945). She also wrote numerous other books including a novel, Maud Martha (1953), and Report from Part One: An Autobiography (1972), and edited Jump Bad: A New Chicago Anthology (1971). In 1968 she was named Poet Laureate for the state of Illinois, and from 1985-86 she was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She also received an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, the Frost Medal, a National Endowment for the Arts award, the Shelley Memorial Award, and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets and the Guggenheim Foundation. She lived in Chicago until her death on December 3, 2000. This bio was last updated on Feb 8, 2001.
Gwendolyn Brooks - The Academy Of American Poets
gwendolyn brooks We Real Cool. Add to a Notebook We Real Cool gwendolyn brooks.Hear it! Read by the author about this recording. THE POOL PLAYERS.
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Chicago Author Gwendolyn Brooks Page
A small selection of brooks' poems.
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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Organizers of the Seattle Poetry Festival, and other spoken word and poetry events in the Northwestern United States. Recent past performers include gwendolyn brooks, Guillermo GomezPena, The Last Poets, isangmahal, Haki Madhubuti, Source of Labor.
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Gwendolyn Brooks' Life And Career
Although she was born on 7 June 1917 in Topeka, Kansasthe first child of Davidand Keziah brooksgwendolyn brooks is a Chicagoan. The family moved to
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Extractions: Brooks' Life and Career Kenny Jackson Williams A lthough she was born on 7 June 1917 in Topeka, Kansasthe first child of David and Keziah BrooksGwendolyn Brooks is "a Chicagoan." The family moved to Chicago shortly after her birth, and despite her extensive travels and periods in some of the major universities of the country, she has remained associated with the city's South Side. What her strong family unit lacked in material wealth was made bearable by the wealth of human capital that resulted from warm interpersonal relationships. When she writes about families thatdespite their daily adversitiesare not dysfunctional, Gwendolyn Brooks writes from an intimate knowledge reinforced by her own life. Brooks attended Hyde Park High School, the leading white high school in the city, but transferred to the all-black Wendell Phillips, then to the integrated Englewood High School. In 1936 she graduated from Wilson Junior College. These four schools gave her a perspective on racial dynamics in the city that continues to influence her work. Her profound interest in poetry informed much of her early life. "Eventide," her first poem, was published in
Gale - Free Resources - Black History Month - Biographies - Gwendolyn Brooks
first African American writer to win a Pulitzer Prize, gwendolyn brooks has worked at her craft for well over fifty
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Extractions: Poet "Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words." Born June 7, 1917, in Topeka, Kansas, poet Gwendolyn Brooks is the first African American writer to win a Pulitzer Prize. She is best known for her sensitive portraits of urban blacks who encounter racism and poverty in their daily lives. Although she was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1917, Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks grew up in Chicago, Illinois, and has always considered it her hometown. Her mother, Keziah Wims Brooks, was a schoolteacher, while her father, David Anderson Brooks, was a janitor who had been forced to abandon his dream of becoming a doctor because he didn't have enough money to finish school. The family also included a son, Raymond, who was sixteen months younger than his sister. The Brooks household was a happy one, and Gwendolyn thrived on a steady diet of love and encouragement from her parents, who read stories and sang songs to their two children. The outside world, however, was somewhat less supportive. According to Kent, as a youngster Gwendolyn "was spurned by members of her own race because she lacked social or athletic abilities, a light skin, and good grade hair." Hurt by such rejection, the little girl took comfort in the solitary pursuits of reading and writing. She composed her first poem at the age of seven and by the age of eleven was regularly entering her thoughts in a notebook. "I felt that I had to write," she later explained in an Ebony article. "Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge." When her parents discovered her aptitude for writing, they excused her from many household chores and set up a desk at which she could work.

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