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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.  
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