| Gwendolyn Brooks  AKA Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
Born: 7-Jun-1917
Birthplace: Topeka, KS
Died: 3-Dec-2000
Location of death: Chicago, IL
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Lincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, IL
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Poet Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Annie Allen Father: David Brooks
Mother: Keziah Wims
Husband: Henry Blakely (m. 1939, one son, one daughter)
High School: Englewood High School
University: Wilson Junior College, Chicago, IL (1936)
Professor: Professor of English, Chicago State University (1990-2000)
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1950 for Annie Allen
Guggenheim Fellowship 1946
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Poetry Society of America
NAACP
Author of books:
A Street in Bronzeville (1945, poetry)
Annie Allen (1949, poetry)
Maud Martha (1953, novel)
Bronzeville Boys and Girls (1956, juvenile)
The Bean Eaters (1960, poetry)
Selected Poems (1963, poetry)
We Real Cool (1966, poetry)
The Wall (1967, poetry)
In the Mecca (1968, poetry)
Family Pictures (1970, poetry)
Riot (1970, poetry)
Black Steel: Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali (1971, poetry)
The World of Gwendolyn Brooks (1971, poetry)
Aloneness (1971, poetry)
Aurora (1972, poetry)
Report from Part One: An Autobiography (1972, memoir)
A Capsule Course in Black Poetry Writing (1975)
Beckonings (1975, poetry)
Primer for Blacks (1980)
Young Poet's Primer (1980)
Black Love (1981, poetry)
To Disembark (1981, poetry)
Very Young Poets (1983)
The Near-Johannesburg Boy, and Other Poems (1986, poetry)
Blacks (1987, poetry)
Winnie (1988, poetry)
Children Coming Home (1991, poetry)
Report from Part Two (1996, memoir)
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