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Gwendolyn Brooks

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Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May 1, 1950, for Annie Allen, making her the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize.

Books

Selected Poems
Selected Poems
Gwendolyn Brooks
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
Blacks
Blacks
Gwendolyn Brooks
A Street in Bronzeville
A Street in Bronzeville
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
We Real Cool
The Pool Players. Seven at the Golden Shovel
We Real Cool
Gwendolyn Brooks
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
Elizabeth Alexander, Gwendolyn Brooks
Annie Allen
Annie Allen
Gwendolyn Brooks
In the Mecca
In the Mecca
Gwendolyn Brooks
The Bean Eaters
The Bean Eaters
Gwendolyn Brooks
In Montgomery, and Other Poems
In Montgomery, and Other Poems
Gwendolyn Brooks
To Disembark
To Disembark
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
Thomas Hardy
Selected Poems
Thomas Hardy
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gedichte, engl. Selected poems
Gedichte, engl. Selected poems
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
Selected Poems of Gwendolyn Brooks
Selected Poems of Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
We Are Shining
We Are Shining
Gwendolyn Brooks
Winnie
Winnie
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks: Collected Poetry and Prose
Library of America #295
Gwendolyn Brooks: Collected Poetry and Prose
Gwendolyn Brooks
Aloneness
Aloneness
Gwendolyn Brooks
A Study Guide for Gwendolyn Brooks’s “We Real Cool”
A Study Guide for Gwendolyn Brooks’s “We Real Cool”
Gwendolyn Brooks
To Disembark
To Disembark
Gwendolyn Brooks

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