The first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about the hardship and struggles of ordinary people. President Donald Trump paces the field at Daytona ...

Gwendolyn Brooks was an African American poet whose imagination, conscience and passion for words made her the first black poet to win the Pulitzer Prize, in 1950. Narrated by her daughter Nora Brooks ...

The Gwendolyn Brooks Cultural Center is named after the first African-American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Poet Laureate of Illinois, Gwendolyn Brooks. Founded in 1970, the Gwendolyn Brooks ...

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) was a modern master of ... s eye and psychological insight — talents on display in her Pulitzer Prize-winning “Annie Allen” and her only book of fiction ...

Gwendolyn Brooks has been a leading force in American letters ... Born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1917, she was the first Black writer to win the Pulitzer Prize (1950 for Annie Allen). Author of more than ...