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Gwendolyn Brooks (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
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Gwendolyn Brooks, the child of loving parents who valued learning, was encouraged to write. Her father provided a desk and bookshelves; her mother took her to meet the writers Langston Hughes and James Weldon Johnson. After being graduated from Wilson Junior College, she was married to Henry Lowington Blakely, also a writer, in 1939.
From Langston Hughes she received encouragement to...
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