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Life and works
'''Gwendolyn Brooks''' (1917-2000)<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/05/books/gwendolyn-brooks-83-passionate-poet-dies.html</ref> was an American author. Her works include ''Annie Allen'' (1949), ''In the Mecca'' (1968), and ''Family Pictures'' (1970). She won a Pultizer Prize for ''Annie Allen''.<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall, New York, 1993.</ref>
'''Gwendolyn Brooks''', (1917-2000),<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/05/books/gwendolyn-brooks-83-passionate-poet-dies.html</ref> was an American author. Her works include ''Annie Allen'' (1949), ''In the Mecca'' (1968), and ''Family Pictures'' (1970). She won a Pultizer Prize for ''Annie Allen''.<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall, New York, 1993.</ref>
==Life and Works==
Brooks was born June 7, 1917, in Topeka, Kansas, but raised in Chicago.<ref>https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/gwendolyn-brooks</ref> Her mother was a schoolteacher, and her paternal grandfather allegedly fought in the Union Army during the [[Civil War]]. She graduated from Wilson Junior College and worked for the [[NAACP|National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]].<ref>https://www.poemhunter.com/gwendolyn-brooks/</ref> As a teenager, she began writing and publishing, and became famous nationally for her ''A Street in Bronzeville'' (1945).<ref>http://www.biography.com/people/gwendolyn-brooks-9227599</ref> In 1950, she became the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize.<ref>http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/poets/detail/gwendolyn-brooks</ref>
While her earlier works, such as ''Maud Martha'', were in more erudite language and complex descriptions of African American daily life, in the late sixties she began to use simpler language and vernacular.<ref>http://www.notablebiographies.com/Br-Ca/Brooks-Gwendolyn.html</ref> She won a great many awards, including:<ref>https://www.poemhunter.com/gwendolyn-brooks/biography/</ref>
*Poet Laureate of Illinois (1968)
*Induction in the National Women's Hall of Fame (1988)
*National Medal of Arts (1995)
She died of cancer on December 3, 2000 in Illinois and is buried in Lincoln Cemetery.
==References==
==References==
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==External Links==
*[https://www.poemhunter.com/gwendolyn-brooks/ Poems] of Gwendolyn Brooks at poemhunter.com
*[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/gwendolyn-brooks Extensive Biography] of Gwendolyn Brooks at the Poetry Foundation website.
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