Gwendolyn Brooks

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Gwendolyn Brooks


Born
in Topeka, Kansas, The United States
June 07, 1917

Died
December 03, 2000

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Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Annie Allen and one of the most celebrated Black poets. She also served as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress—the first Black woman to hold that position. She was the poet laureate for the state of Illinois for over thirty years, a National Women’s Hall of Fame inductee, and the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her works include We Are Shining, Bronzeville Boys and Girls, A Street in Bronzeville, In the Mecca, The Bean Eaters, and Maud Martha.

Average rating: 4.19 · 10,825 ratings · 1,357 reviews · 125 distinct worksSimilar authors
Maud Martha

4.10 avg rating — 3,895 ratings — published 1953 — 28 editions
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Selected Poems

4.20 avg rating — 2,861 ratings — published 1963 — 21 editions
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The Essential Gwendolyn Bro...

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4.35 avg rating — 925 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions
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Blacks

4.48 avg rating — 384 ratings — published 1987 — 13 editions
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A Street in Bronzeville

4.34 avg rating — 348 ratings — published 1945 — 6 editions
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Bronzeville Boys and Girls

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4.10 avg rating — 321 ratings — published 1956 — 17 editions
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We Real Cool

4.21 avg rating — 261 ratings — published 1966 — 2 editions
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Annie Allen

4.14 avg rating — 253 ratings — published 1972 — 4 editions
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In the Mecca

4.35 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 1968 — 3 editions
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The Bean Eaters

4.34 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 1950 — 8 editions
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“We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.”
Gwendolyn Brooks

“Live not for Battles Won.
Live not for The-End-of-the-Song.
Live in the along.”
Gwendolyn Brooks, Report from Part One

“Writing is a delicious agony.”
Gwendolyn Brooks

Polls

September 2017 New School Classic Poll

 
  44 votes, 14.3%

The Secret History by Donna Tartt, 1992, 559 pgs
 
  33 votes, 10.7%

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, 1985, 324 pgs
 
  30 votes, 9.7%

The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 1969, 448 pgs
 
  27 votes, 8.8%

Dubliners by James Joyce, 1914, 207 pgs
 
  26 votes, 8.4%

Sophie's Choice by William Styron, 1979, 562 pgs
 
  19 votes, 6.2%

 
  18 votes, 5.8%

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, 1906, 335 pgs
 
  16 votes, 5.2%

 
  15 votes, 4.9%

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, 1927, 256 pgs
 
  15 votes, 4.9%

Possession by A.S. Byatt, 1990, 555 pgs
 
  13 votes, 4.2%

 
  11 votes, 3.6%

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, 1913, 468 pgs
 
  11 votes, 3.6%

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, 1934, 308 pgs
 
  10 votes, 3.2%

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, 1923, 127 pgs
 
  10 votes, 3.2%

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924, 225 pgs
 
  9 votes, 2.9%

The Street by Ann Petry, 1946, 435 pgs
 
  1 vote, 0.3%

Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks, 1953, 180 pgs
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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