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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: 4.21 · 6,271 ratings · 636 reviews · 73 distinct works • Similar authors

	Selected Poems 4.22 avg rating — 2,000 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 4.13 avg rating — 1,523 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 4.33 avg rating — 499 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 4.43 avg rating — 311 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) 4.02 avg rating — 223 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 4.11 avg rating — 163 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 4.32 avg rating — 136 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 4.34 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 1945 — 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 4.26 avg rating — 102 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 4.32 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1950 — 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

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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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The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

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Let Me Alone by Anna Kavan

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The Sleeping Voice by Dulce Chacón

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Shame by Annie Ernaux

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Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir by Lisa F. Smith

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The Path of the Child by Sojourner McConnell

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Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks

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