Gwendolyn Brooks
Born: June 7, 1917
Died: December 3, 2000
Biography
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an American poet, author, and teacher. Born in Topeka, Kansas in 1917, and raised in Chicago, Brooks was the author of more than twenty books of poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950, for Annie Allen, making her the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize. In 1985, she was the first Black woman appointed as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress.
