Person Detail: Gwendolyn Brooks

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General Information:
Full Name: Gwendolyn Brooks
Biography: (1917-2000) Poet. Gwendolyn Brooks taught creative writing at Columbia University and City College of the City University of New York in Manhattan, New York. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1985 to 1986.
Author's Timeline:
1917		(Unknown) County Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1917.
2000		(Unknown) County Gwendolyn Brooks died in Chicago, Illinois, in 2000.
2000		(Unknown) County Gwendolyn Brooks is interred at Lincoln Cemetery, Worth, Illinois.
1945		(Unknown) County A Street in Bronzeville (Pub: Harper and Row. ISBN: ) Poetry collection.
1949		(Unknown) County Annie Allen (Pub: Harper. ISBN: ) Poetry collection, winner of 1950 Pulitzer Prize.
1953		(Unknown) County Maud Martha (Pub: Harper. ISBN: ) Novel.
1963		(Unknown) County Selected Poems (Pub: Harper. ISBN: ) Poetry collection.
1969		(Unknown) County Riot (Pub: Broadside Press. ISBN: ) Poetry collection.
1986		(Unknown) County The Near Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems (Pub: The David Company. ISBN: ) Poetry collection.
1987		(Unknown) County Blacks Poetry collection.
1960		(Unknown) County The Bean Eaters (Pub: Harper. ISBN: ) Poetry collection.
1970		(Unknown) County The World of Gwendolyn Brooks (Pub: Harper. ISBN: ) Poetry collection.
1968		(Unknown) County In the Mecca (Pub: Harper. ISBN: ) Poetry collection.
1980		(Unknown) County Primer for Blacks (Pub: Black Position Press. ISBN: )
1981		(Unknown) County To Disembark (Pub: Third World Press. ISBN: )
?		New York County Brooks taught creative writing at Columbia University and City College of the City University of New York in Manhattan, New York.