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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 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 · 5,280 ratings · 516 reviews · 68 distinct works • Similar authors

	Selected Poems 4.22 avg rating — 1,786 ratings — published 1963 — 9 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
	Maud Martha 4.10 avg rating — 1,347 ratings — published 1953 — 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 Essential Gwendolyn Brooks 4.30 avg rating — 371 ratings — published 2005 — 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
	Blacks 4.41 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 1987 — 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
	Bronzeville Boys and Girls by Gwendolyn Brooks, Faith Ringgold (Illustrator) 4.01 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 1956 — 5 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 4.12 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 1972	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 4.33 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 1966	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 4.36 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 1945 — 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
	In the Mecca 4.28 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1968	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 4.36 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1950 — 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

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Quotes by 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

tags: battles, living, poetry

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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

tags: humanity, understanding, unity

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“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

46 votes, 14.2%

The Secret History by Donna Tartt, 1992, 559 pgs

35 votes, 10.8%

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, 1985, 324 pgs

30 votes, 9.3%

The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 1969, 448 pgs

29 votes, 9.0%

Dubliners by James Joyce, 1914, 207 pgs

27 votes, 8.4%

Sophie's Choice by William Styron, 1979, 562 pgs

19 votes, 5.9%

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

18 votes, 5.6%

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

18 votes, 5.6%

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, 1906, 335 pgs

16 votes, 5.0%

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, 1927, 256 pgs

16 votes, 5.0%

Possession by A.S. Byatt, 1990, 555 pgs

14 votes, 4.3%

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, 1913, 468 pgs

12 votes, 3.7%

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

11 votes, 3.4%

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924, 225 pgs

11 votes, 3.4%

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, 1923, 127 pgs

10 votes, 3.1%

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, 1934, 308 pgs

10 votes, 3.1%

The Street by Ann Petry, 1946, 435 pgs

1 vote, 0.3%

Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks, 1953, 180 pgs

0 votes, 0.0%

323 total votes

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