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1. www.africanamericanpoetry.org › gwendolyn-brooksGwendolyn Brooks - African American Poetry

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   Friends, family, and fellow literary figures gather to celebrate poet Gwendolyn Brooks's 50th birthday at her home in Chicago, 1967. Brooks is visible on the lower left, seated against the staircase, to the left of the woman clad in a checkered jacket.

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Gwendolyn_BrooksGwendolyn Brooks - Wikipedia

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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.

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4. www.britannica.com › biography › Gwendolyn-BrooksGwendolyn Brooks | Biography, Poetry, Books, We Real Cool ...

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   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.

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5. poets.org › collection › gwendolyn-brooks-centennialGwendolyn Brooks: A Centennial Celebration | Academy of ...

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   This year marks Brooks’s centennial, and to celebrate, we’ve created this new collection of essays, audio, and poems by and about Brooks.

6. chicagodefender.com › centennial-celebration-theCentennial Celebration: The Life and Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks

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   Jun 7, 2017 · Poets, writers, historians, and musicians in the city and across the state are creatively celebrating the life and legacy of the late Gwendolyn “Gwendie” Brooks, the first African American...

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   Poets Kyle Dargan and Janice Harrington celebrate the birthday of American poet Gwendolyn Brooks by reading selections from her work and discussing her influ...

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   How did Gwendolyn Brooks celebrate her 50th birthday?

   • Friends, family, and fellow literary figures gather to celebrate poet Gwendolyn Brooks's 50th birthday at her home in Chicago, 1967. Brooks is visible on the lower left, seated against the staircase, to the left of the woman clad in a checkered jacket.

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   How did Gwendolyn Brooks become famous?

   • Poet Gwendolyn Brooks moved to Chicago at a young age. She began writing and publishing as a teenager, eventually achieving national fame for her 1945 collection A Street in Bronzeville. In 1950 Brooks became the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, for her book Annie Allen. She died in her Chicago home on December 3, 2000.

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   When is Gwendolyn Brooks birthday?

   • Gwendolyn Brooks’s legacy is honored annually in Chicago on June 7, her birthday, in a citywide celebration known as BrooksDay. Her latter works include Primer for Blacks (1980), Young Poet’s Primer (1980), To Disembark (1981), The Near-Johannesburg Boy, and Other Poems (1986), Blacks (1987), Winnie (1988), and Children Coming Home (1991).

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   What is Gwendolyn Brooks quote?

   • Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him.” - Gwendolyn Brooks, ‘Annie Allen’. 50. “... beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.” - Gwendolyn Brooks. 51. “I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head.” - Gwendolyn Brooks.

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9. www.biography.com › authors-writers › gwendolyn-brooksGwendolyn Brooks - Poems, Quotes & Education - Biography

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   Apr 2, 2014 · Gwendolyn Brooks was a postwar poet best known as the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for her 1949 book 'Annie Allen.'