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Brooks, Gwendolyn From Astro-Databank Jump to: navigation search Gwendolyn Brooks natal chart (Placidus) natal chart English style (Equal houses) Gwendolyn Brooks Name Brooks, Gwendolyn Gender : F born on 17 June 1917 at 13:00 (= 1:00 PM ) Place Topeka KS, USA, Timezone CST h6w (is standard time) Data source Quoted BC/BR Rodden Rating AA Astrology data Asc. add Gwendolyn Brooks to 'my astro' Biography American writer, the author of more than 20 books and poet laureate of Illinois from 1969. Brooks was a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1949 and in 1989, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Endowment for the arts. Diagnosed with cancer just the week before, Brooks died on 12/03/2000, Chicago, IL at age 83.. Link to Wikipedia biography Events Work : Prize 1989 (Lifetime Achievement Award) Work : Prize 1949 (Pulitzer Prize) Death by Disease 3 December 2000 (cancer, age 83) Source Notes Gauquelin Book of American Charts; some sources give June 7 Categories Vocation : Writers : Poet Vocation : Writers : Fiction (More than 20 books) Notable : Awards : Pulitzer prize (Literature) Notable : Awards : Vocational award (Lifetime Achievement Award) Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Cancer Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs Retrieved from " http://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Brooks%2C_Gwendolyn

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Authors A-Z Brooks Gwendolyn The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks November 2005 Hardcover New York Times "When Miss Brooks...writes out of her heart, out of her rich and living background, out of her very real talent, then she induces almost unbearable excitement." This text refers to the Paperback edition. Harvey Curtis Webster "She is a very good poet, the only superlative I dare use in our time of misusage; compared...to the best of modern poets, she ranks high." This text refers to the Paperback edition. See all Editorial Reviews Gwendolyn Brooks Manufactured by Chelsea House Publications January 2002 Hardcover Book Description The Poetry of Black America Arnold Adoff Apr 1973 Hardcover About the Author Arnold Adoff has written over twenty-five books of poetry for young readers, including Slow Dance Heartbreak Blues, illustrated by William Cotton; and Street Music: City Poems, illustrated by Karen Barbour, both of which are available at your local library. He is the author of Malcolm X

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34. Museum Of American Poetics - Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks (19172000) Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas, on June 7, 1917. While still an infant, she and her family moved to Chicago. http://www.poetspath.com/brooks.html

Gwendolyn Brooks A Street in Bronzeville. Five years later, in 1950, she became the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Annie Allen. President John F. Kennedy invited her to read at the Library of Congress in 1962, and in 1985 she was appointed poetry consultant to the library. In 1968 she was named poet laureate of Illinois. In 1989, Brooks received a lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts. She was named the 1994 Jefferson Lecturer by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the highest honor bestowed by the federal government for work in the humanities. Along with her husband, Henry Blakely, who she married in 1938, she lived in a kitchenette apartment in Chicago's South Side where they raised two children. Gwendolyn Brooks promoted an understanding of black culture through her candid, compassionate poetry. She wrote hundreds of poems, had more than 20 books published. She died from cancer on December 3, 2000. Tributes She Took Us to Our Literary Mecca: A Tribute to Gwendolyn Brooks By Daphne Muse Gwendolyn Brooks Online Gwendolyn Brooks Academy of American Poets page Gwendolyn Brooks Circle Association page Gwendolyn Brooks Modern American Poetry page Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Foundation page ... Gwendolyn Brooks YouTube page A Gwendolyn Brooks Curriculum Gwendolyn Brooks: A Lesson Plan (Grades 5/6) D. H. Melhem

35. Gwendolyn Brooks Definition Of Gwendolyn Brooks In The Free Online Encyclopedia. Brooks, Gwendolyn (Elizabeth) (born June 7, 1917, Topeka, Kan., U.S.—died Dec. 3, 2000, Chicago, Ill.) U.S. poet. Reared in the Chicago slums, Brooks published her first poem at http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Gwendolyn Brooks

36. Poets House - Titles By Brooks, Gwendolyn The aching loveliness of these poems is sometimes close to unbearable.......Author Brooks, Gwendolyn Title Beckonings Publisher Broadside Press Pub. Date 1991 http://www.poetshouse.org/author.asp?author=Brooks, Gwendolyn

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Home U.S. People Word Wise ... Homework Center Fact Monster Favorites American Indian Heritage Month Math Flashcards Geography Guide Seven New Wonders of the World ... The Fifty States Reference Desk Atlas Almanacs Dictionary Encyclopedia ... Encyclopedia Brooks, Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks, Gwendolyn Elizabeth, , American poet, b. Topeka, Kans. She grew up in the slums of Chicago and lived in that city until her death. Brooks's poems, technically accomplished and written in a variety of forms including quatrains, free verse, ballads, and sonnets, deal with the experience of being black and often of being female in America. She attracted critical attention with her first volume, A Street in Bronzeville (1945). Brooks went on to win the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Annie Allen (1949), becoming the first black woman to win this award. Her verse was collected in The World of Gwendolyn Brooks (1970), which also includes an earlier novelette, Maud Martha (1953). Her work took on a more radical tone beginning with In the Mecca (1968); the subsequent poems in

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