Gwendolyn Brooks holds a unique position in American letters. Not only has she combined a strong commitment to racial identity and equality with a mastery of poetic techniques, but she also has managed to bridge the gap between the academic poets of...

Throughout her career Gwendolyn Brooks has been committed to a political vision of black liberty and equality while refusing to sacrifice the complexity and sheer beauty of her art. In light of her achievement she has become considered by many to be...

The first black writer to win the Pulitzer Prize, Gwendolyn Brooks holds, as the critic George E. Kent noted in Dictionary of Literary Biography, "a unique position in American letters. Not only has she combined a strong commitment to racial identity...

According to her autobiography, Report from Part One (1972), Gwendolyn Brooks was a shy and sensitive schoolgirl who, while yearning for the glamour and popularity of some girls around her, spent her time in reading, in participating in a close family...

According to her autobiography, Report from Part One (1972), Gwendolyn Brooks was a shy and sensitive schoolgirl who, while yearning for the glamour and popularity of some girls around her, spent her time in reading, in participating in a close family...

Gwendolyn Brooks (born 1917) was the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and is best known for her intense poetic portraits of urban African Americans. Gwendolyn Brooks was born on June 7, 1917, in Topeka, Kansas. The eldest...