Brooks, Gwendolyn (Elizabeth)
- Brooks, Gwendolyn (Elizabeth)
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died Dec. 3, 2000, Chicago, Ill.
U.S. poet.
Reared in the Chicago slums, Brooks published her first poem at age 13. With
Annie Allen (1949), a loosely connected series of poems about growing up in Chicago, she became the first black poet to win the Pulitzer Prize.
The Bean Eaters (1960) contains some of her best verse. Among her other books are
In the Mecca (1968), the
autobiographical Report from Part One (1972),
Primer for Blacks (1980),
Young Poets' Primer (1981), and
Children Coming Home (1991).
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