Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations...

university-preparatory school, Brooks is named for African–American poet, author and Chicago native Gwendolyn Brooks. Brooks College Preparatory Academy...

Gwendolyn Bradley, American soprano Gwendolyn T. Britt (1941–2008), American Democratic politician Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000), American poet Gwendoline...

Permissions, a permissions firm that manages the use of literary works by Gwendolyn Brooks and other authors. She has made public appearances and appeared in...

"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...

Blythe titled "Mecca Flats Blues" and a poem, "In the Mecca", by poet Gwendolyn Brooks. The Mecca Flats was originally seen as a building for the rich since...

In 1990, Gwendolyn Brooks, the well-known poet, was hired as a Distinguished Professor; she taught classes at CSU up until her death. Brooks protégé and...

poetry, making Dove the second African American to win the award after Gwendolyn Brooks won in 1950. The Event Variation on Pain Jiving Straw Hat Courtship...

Bessie Smith 1986 Barbara McClintock Lucy Stone Harriet Beecher Stowe 1988 Gwendolyn Brooks Willa Cather Sally Ride Mary Risteau Ida B. Wells-Barnett...

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...

Pupil/Teacher Ratio Abraham Lincoln Elementary School 565 50.6 15 Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School 951 72 16 Horace Mann Elementary School 396 34.8 13 Irving...

poem "Golden Shovel" (from his 2010 collection Lighthead) is based on Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool" (which begins with an epigraph that includes the phrase...

"Frost? Williams? No, Gwendolyn Brooks". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved January 24, 2020. Watkins, Mel (December 4, 2000). "Gwendolyn Brooks, Whose Poetry Told...

1953 novel written by Pulitzer Prize winning African American poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Structured as a series of thirty-four vignettes, it follows the titular...

2–7. doi:10.1080/00064246.1983.11414282. ISSN 0006-4246. JSTOR 41067044. Brooks-Bertram and Nevergold, Uncrowned Queens, p. 146. Moran, Sheila (April 8...

the university recalled West's role in establishing the university's Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing "as an academic focus...

Wayne Thiebaud Richard Wilbur Young Audiences 1995 Licia Albanese Gwendolyn Brooks B. Gerald and Iris Cantor Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee David Diamond James...

popular series of poetry workshops for women at the Library of Congress. Gwendolyn Brooks met with elementary school students to encourage them to write poetry...

Pullman, Ryder, and Smith. Three high schools, Fenger High School, Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy and Harlan Community Academy High School...

During the Civil Rights Movement, authors such as Richard Wright and Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about issues of racial segregation and black nationalism. Today...

1983, making Walker the first black woman to win for fiction; in 1950 Gwendolyn Brooks had won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Walker also won the National...

that year. The response, including an introduction to the book by Gwendolyn Brooks, established Kgositsile as a leading African-American poet. The Last...

Gwendolyn Brooks, as well as Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Sterling Plumpp and Pearl Cleage. Heavily influenced by his creative predecessor Gwendolyn Brooks...

Bessie Smith 1986 Barbara McClintock Lucy Stone Harriet Beecher Stowe 1988 Gwendolyn Brooks Willa Cather Sally Ride Mary Risteau Ida B. Wells-Barnett...

Myra Bradwell Mary Carson Breckinridge Ruby Bridges Nancy Brinker Gwendolyn Brooks Pearl S. Buck Betty Bumpers Charlotte Bunch Octavia Butler St. Frances...

Bessie Smith 1986 Barbara McClintock Lucy Stone Harriet Beecher Stowe 1988 Gwendolyn Brooks Willa Cather Sally Ride Mary Risteau Ida B. Wells-Barnett...

Washington, D.C., and international correspondent Ethel Payne, poet Gwendolyn Brooks, author Willard Motley, music critic Dave Peyton, journalists Ida B...

Bessie Smith 1986 Barbara McClintock Lucy Stone Harriet Beecher Stowe 1988 Gwendolyn Brooks Willa Cather Sally Ride Mary Risteau Ida B. Wells-Barnett...

considered one of McKay's most famous poems and was described by the poet Gwendolyn Brooks as one of the most famous poems of all time. During the Red Summer...

Bessie Smith 1986 Barbara McClintock Lucy Stone Harriet Beecher Stowe 1988 Gwendolyn Brooks Willa Cather Sally Ride Mary Risteau Ida B. Wells-Barnett...