A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks | A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks

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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...

A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks | A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks

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