Gwendolyn+Brooks

**Gwendolyn Brooks**
 * **Born in Topeka, Kansas**
 * **Lived most of life in Chicago [[image:thepoetryplace/picture_gwendolyn_brooks.jpg width="289" height="230" align="right" caption="Gwendolyn Brooks"]]**
 * **First book in 1943**
 * **Received many awards and honors for work**
 * **Two Guggenheim fellowship**
 * **First Pulitzer prize for poetry award to a African-American**
 * **Warm health writers workshop**
 * **Lived from 1917-2000**
 * **First black American to win a Pulitzer prize**
 * **Received award for Annie Allen 1949**
 * **Praised black American heroes**
 * **1968 marks a dividing line in Brooks work**
 * **Later work militant and nationalistic**
 * **Attended a junior college**
 * **Dad was a janitor**
 * **Parents were supportive**
 * **Worked for the NAACP**
 * **First novel published in the 1950's**
 * **Was 13 when her first published poem got into American Childhood**
 * **Mom was a schoolteacher**
 * **Poetry consultant to the Liberty of Congress**
 * **The first book she wrote was called Bronzeville Boys and Girls**
 * **Which was about growing up in the small community called Bronzeville, Chicago.**
 * **Hosted annual literary award ceremonies**
 * **She used fre e verses and sonnets (others too) **
 * **The prizes came "out of her own pocket"**
 * **Made two volumes of her autobiography**
 * **Poet laureate from the State of Illinois**

**Poems By Gwendolyn Brooks** **Novels** **Bibliography**
 * **The Bean Eaters**
 * **The Lovers of the Poor**
 * **The Mother**
 * **The Sonnet-Ballad**
 * **We Real Cool**
 * **The Central**
 * **Poetry Speaks**
 * **Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate**
 * **A Street in Bronzeville**
 * **In The Mecca**
 * **Annie Allen[[image:http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-d9N2JfW0M7M/TanqsqXuoJI/AAAAAAACA0c/C0Q9VOJ952I/s1600/Gwendolyn-Brooks-poet.jpg width="230" height="201" align="right" caption="Prize Winning Poet"]]**
 * **Family Pictures**
 * **Riot**
 * **Aloneness**
 * **Primer For Blacks**
 * **To Disembark**
 * **Black Love**
 * **Winnie**
 * **Children Coming Home**
 * **Gottschalk and the Grande Tarantelle**
 * **To Be in Love**
 * **The Crazy Woman**
 * **The Good Man**
 * **The Ballad of Rudolph Reed**
 * **Maud Martha**
 * **Report From Part Two**


 * Williams, Andrea N. "Brooks, Gwendolyn." World Book. Web. 01 Dec. 2011. .
 * Mckay, Nellie Y. Encyclopedia Americana. Danbury, CT: Scholastic Library, 2004. Print.
 * "Gwendolyn Brooks." //Poetry Foundation//. Web. 15 Dec. 2011. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/gwendolyn-brooks.