A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: George E. Kent
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1900-1988
- Setting: The United States, primarily Chicago, Illinois
- Principal Characters: Gwendolyn Brooks, Keziah Corinne Wims Brooks, David Anderson Brooks, Henry Lowington Blakely, Henry Lowington Blakely, Nora Blakely
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Racism, Sexism, Poetry or poets, Chicago, Poverty or poor people, Feminism, Nonviolence
- Locales: United States, Chicago, IL
Gwendolyn Brooks’s Annie Allen (1949) was the first book by a black writer to win the Pulitzer Prize. In A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks, George F. Kent shows that her unique development as an Afro-American writer probably contributed directly to her unusual success at a fairly young age. Born in Topeka, Kansas, on June 7, 1917, Brooks was reared in a strong, middle-class family. Though her parents struggled through the Depression in Chicago, they had settled there early enough to be well-established homeowners before the hard times arrived, and they were tenacious enough to...
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