Commemorative postage stamp of Gwendolyn Brooks issued by the USPS in 2012.
Born
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (1917-06-07)June 7, 1917 Topeka, Kansas, U.S.
Died
December 3, 2000(2000-12-03) (aged 83) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation
Poet
Education
Kennedy-King College
Period
1930–2000
Notable works
A Street in Bronzeville,Annie Allen, Winnie
Notable awards
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1950) Robert Frost Medal (1989) National Medal of Arts (1995)
Spouse
Henry Lowington Blakely, Jr.
(m. 1939; died 1996)
Children
2, including Nora Brooks Blakely
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. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May 1, 1950, for Annie Allen,[1] making her the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize.[2][3]
Throughout her prolific writing career, Brooks received many more honors. A lifelong resident of Chicago, she was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968, a position she held until her death 32 years later.[4] She was also named the U.S. Poet Laureate for the 1985–86 term.[5] In 1976, she became the first African American woman inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[6]
^Banks, Margot Harper (2012). Religious allusion in the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks. McFarland & Co. p. 3. ISBN 978-0786449392.
^Watkins, Mel (December 4, 2000). "Gwendolyn Brooks, Whose Poetry Told of Being Black in America, Dies at 83". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 6, 2014. Retrieved September 13, 2012. Gwendolyn Brooks, who illuminated the black experience in America in poems that spanned most of the 20th century, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1950, died yesterday at her home in Chicago. She was 83.
^"Frost? Williams? No, Gwendolyn Brooks". www.pulitzer.org. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
^"Illinois Poet Laureate". Archived from the original on February 28, 2015. Retrieved March 6, 2015.
^"Poet Laureate Timeline: 1981–1990". Library of Congress. 2008. Archived from the original on June 29, 2006. Retrieved December 19, 2008.
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