Annie Allen
work by Brooks
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African American history
- In African Americans: Literature
…win a Pulitzer Prize, for Annie Allen in 1950. In 1970 Charles Gordone became the first African American playwright to win the Pulitzer, with his depiction of a Black hustler-poet in No Place to Be Somebody. The Color Purple, a best-selling novel by Alice Walker, won a Pulitzer in 1983.…
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discussed in biography
- In Gwendolyn Brooks: Annie Allen and Maud Martha
Brooks’s next collection, Annie Allen, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize, is a loosely connected series of poems related to an African American girl’s growing up in Chicago. One of the central pieces in the book is a 43-stanza poem called “The Anniad,” which narrates the life…
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