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Gwendolyn Brooks

poet, author, and teacher-First African American Pulitzer Prize recipient

Gwendolyn Brooks-Born: June 7, 1917; Died: December 3, 2000,

 

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.

Writers

African-American writers have risen above racial inequality to examine life in both fiction and nonfiction arenas. They have provided intimate life details, presented new ideas and created storylines that rise to the top of their field.

 Maya Angelou James Baldwin Imamu Amiri Baraka  Ed Bradley Gwendolyn Brooks William Wells Brown Octavia Butler Charles W. Chesnutt Rita Dove Paul Laurence Dunbar Ralph Ellison Olaudah Equiano Ernest Gaines Nikki Giovanni Alex Haley Lorraine Hansberry Robert Hayden bell Hooks Robert C Maynard Terry McMillian Toni Morrison Walter Mosley Lucy Terry Alice Walker Phillis Wheatley August Wilson Harriet Wilson Richard Wright

THE POOL PLAYERS.

SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.

 

We real cool. We

Left school. We

Lurk late. We

Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We

Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We

Die soon.

By Gwendolyn Brooks

Author: Michelle D Walton – writer/contributor
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