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Writers & Thinkers

Gwendolyn Brooks

1917 – 2000

Topeka, Kansas and Chicago, Illinois, United States

Topeka-born poet raised in Chicago who drew on South Side life; Annie Allen won her the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, the first awarded to a Black writer, and she was Illinois poet laureate from 1968.

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Low Library at Columbia University, New York, c. 1905; Columbia administers the Pulitzer Prizes Brooks won in 1950
Credit: Detroit Publishing Co., Library of Congress. License: Public domain (LOC: no known restrictions; c. 1905).

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Sources

  1. Encyclopedia of the Great Plains (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), "Brooks, Gwendolyn" (Scholarly)
  2. Library of Congress, "Gwendolyn Brooks: U.S. Consultant in Poetry, 1985-1986" (Primary source)
  3. Kansas Historical Society, Kansapedia, "Gwendolyn Brooks" (Primary source)

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