June 7, 2006

Gwendolyn Brooks

Brooks was an award-winning poet whose poems, technically accomplished and written in a variety of forms, deal with the experience of being black and often of being female in America. Her 1949 book of poetry, Annie Allen, received a Pulitzer Prize, the first ever awarded to an African American. In 1994, she was named the National Endowment for the Humanities' Jefferson Lecturer, one of the highest honors in the American literary world. In what city did she spend almost all of her life?
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