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Also Known As Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
Born June 7, 1917 • Topeka • Kansas
Died December 3, 2000 (aged 83) • Chicago • Illinois
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize
Notable Works “A Street in Bronzeville” • “Annie Allen” • “Blacks” • “Children Coming Home” • “In the Mecca” • “Primer for Blacks” • “Report from Part One” • “Report from Part Two” • “Selected Poems” • “The Bean Eaters” • “The Near-Johannesburg Boy, and Other Poems” • “Winnie” • “Young Poet’s Primer”

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Carl Sandburg.
Carl Sandburg
American poet and historian
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Ntozake Shange
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June Jordan.
June Jordan
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Sylvia Plath
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Conrad Aiken.
Conrad Aiken
American writer
Phyllis McGinley
American poet
Alice Walker
Alice Walker
American writer
Rita Dove
Rita Dove
American author
Carolyn Wells
American writer
Eunice Tietjens
poet, novelist, and editor
James Agee
American author
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
American poet, memoirist, and actress
Claude McKay
Claude McKay
American writer
James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson
American writer
Bebe Moore Campbell
American novelist and essayist
Arna Bontemps, photograph by Carl Van Vechten.
Arna Bontemps
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Robert Lowell, c. 1960
Robert Lowell
American poet
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
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Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
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