Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks (June 7, 1917 - December 3, 2000) was an award-winning African American woman poet. Born in Topeka, Kansas, she grew up in and remained in Chicago, Illinois. Although she also wrote a novel, an autobiography and some other prose works, she was noted primarily as a poet. Her 1949 book of poetry, Annie Allen, received a Pulitzer Prize, the first won by an African American. In 1968, she was made Poet Laureate of Illinois. Other awards she received included the Frost Medal, the Shelley Memorial Award, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters award.

Works

Poetry except as noted.

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• A Street in Bronzeville (1945)
• Annie Allen (1949)
• Maud Martha (1953) (Fiction)
• Bronzeville Boys and Girls (1956)
• The Bean Eaters (1960)
• Selected Poems (1963)
• We Real Cool (1966)
• The Wall (1967)
• In the Mecca (1968)
• Family Pictures (1970)
• Black Steel: Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali (1971)
• The World of Gwendolyn Brooks (1971)
• Aloneness (1971)
• Report from Part One: An Autobiography (1972) (Prose)
• A Capsule Course in Black Poetry Writing (1975) (Prose)
• Aurora (1972)
• Beckonings (1975)
• Black Love (1981)
• To Disembark (1981)
• Primer for Blacks (1981) (Prose)
• Young Poet's Primer (1981) (Prose)
• Very Young Poets (1983) (Prose)
• The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems (1986)
• Blacks (1987)
• Winnie (1988)
• Children Coming Home (1991)
• In Montgomery (2003) (Poetry)