GwendolynBrooks

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__GWENDOLY BROOKS__

GWENDOLYN BROOKS WAS AN AFRICAN AMERICAN POET, WHO WAS BORN IN 1917 IN TOPEKA, KANSAS AND WAS RAISED IN CHICAGO. __She is the author of more than twenty books of poetry, including Children Coming Home (The David Co., 1991); Blacks (1987); To Disembark (1981); The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems (1986); Riot (1969); In the Mecca (1968); The Bean Eaters (1960); Annie Allen (1949)__ [|//http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/165//]

__AWARDS WON__ She also received an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, the Frost Medal, a National Endowment for the Arts award, the Shelley Memorial Award, and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets and the Guggenheim Foundation. She lived in Chicago until her death on December 3, 2000. received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1950, becoming the first African American to receive this award in poetry __STYLE__ TYPICAL POET AND ALSO A NOVELIST/GREAT AUTHOR __PERSONAL LIFE__ PART OF THE BLACK LITERATURE MOVEMENT BORN JUNE 7TH 1917 AND DIED IN 2000

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