• Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations...
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    university-preparatory school, Brooks is named for African–American poet, author and Chicago native Gwendolyn Brooks. Brooks College Preparatory Academy...
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  • Gwendolyn Bradley, American soprano Gwendolyn T. Britt (1941–2008), American Democratic politician Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000), American poet Gwendoline...
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  • Permissions, a permissions firm that manages the use of literary works by Gwendolyn Brooks and other authors. She has made public appearances and appeared in...
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  • Annie Allen (category Works by Gwendolyn Brooks)
    Annie Allen is a book of poetry by American author Gwendolyn Brooks that was published by Harper & Brothers in 1949. The book tells in poetry about the...
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  • We Real Cool (category Works by Gwendolyn Brooks)
    "We Real Cool" is a poem written in 1959 by poet Gwendolyn Brooks and published in her 1960 book The Bean Eaters, her third collection of poetry. The poem...
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  • poem "Golden Shovel" (from his 2010 collection Lighthead) is based on Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool" (which begins with an epigraph that includes the phrase...
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    she published "Marigolds" in Negro Digest, and it won the inaugural Gwendolyn Brooks Prize for Fiction in 1969; it was her first published story. The story...
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  • In 1990, Gwendolyn Brooks, the well-known poet, was hired as a Distinguished Professor; she taught classes at CSU up until her death. Brooks protégé and...
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    the university recalled West's role in establishing the university's Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing "as an academic focus...
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