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Gwendolyn Brooks

Born

in Topeka, Kansas, The United States

June 07, 1917

Died

December 03, 2000

Website

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/broo...

Genre

Poetry, Children's

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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.

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Gwendolyn Brooks’s books

Average rating: 4.19 · 11,068 ratings · 1,404 reviews · 127 distinct works • Similar authors

	Maud Martha 4.10 avg rating — 4,011 ratings — published 1953 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poems 4.20 avg rating — 2,904 ratings — published 1963 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks: (American Poets Project #19) by Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Alexander (Editor) 4.35 avg rating — 945 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blacks 4.48 avg rating — 386 ratings — published 1987 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Street in Bronzeville 4.34 avg rating — 355 ratings — published 1945 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bronzeville Boys and Girls: A Picture Book of Classic Poetry About Urban Life and Childhood for Kids (Ages 4-8) by Gwendolyn Brooks, Faith Ringgold (Illustrator) 4.09 avg rating — 326 ratings — published 1956 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Real Cool 4.20 avg rating — 276 ratings — published 1966 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Annie Allen 4.14 avg rating — 261 ratings — published 1972 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Mecca 4.34 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 1968 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bean Eaters 4.33 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 1950 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Gwendolyn Brooks (?)

“We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks

tags: humanity, understanding, unity

1094 likes

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

tags: battles, living, poetry

1069 likes

“Writing is a delicious agony.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks

tags: writing

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Polls

September 2017 New School Classic Poll

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, 1969, 246 pgs

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%

Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières, 1994, 437 pgs

18 votes, 5.8%

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, 1906, 335 pgs

16 votes, 5.2%

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, 1940, 368 pgs

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%

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann, 1901, 731 pgs

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%

308 total votes

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