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Bookmark or Share- Gwendolyn Brooks - African American PoetryBrooks was the first African American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize, the winner of several lifetime achievement awards, and a holder of more than fifty honorary degrees.
- Gwendolyn Brooks: A Chicago Legacy - Poetry FoundationGwendolyn Brooks, the first Black winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a social justice champion, is the unofficial eternal poet laureate of Chicago.
- Gwendolyn Brooks | Biography, Poetry, Books, We Real ...Gwendolyn Brooks was one of the most influential poets of the 20th century and the first African American poet to win the Pulitzer Prize (1950). Her works deal with the everyday life of urban African Americans, combining Modernist techniques with Black idioms and phrasings.
- Remembering The Great Poet Gwendolyn Brooks At 100A new biography celebrates the life and legacy of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, who wrote about ordinary black life using extraordinary language.
- An Introduction to Gwendolyn Brooks - Academy of American PoetsSince she began publishing her tight lyrics of Chicago’s great South Side in the 1940s, Gwendolyn Brooks has been one of the most influential American poets of the twentieth century.
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