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Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000

LC control no.n 50041281
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LC classificationPS3503.R7244
Personal name headingBrooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000
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Variant(s)Blakely, Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917-2000
See alsoDaughter of: Brooks, Keziah C.
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1917-06-07
Death date2000-12-03
Place of birthTopeka (Kan.)
Place of deathChicago (Ill.)
AffiliationColumbia College (Chicago, Ill.) Elmhurst College Northeastern Illinois University University of Wisconsin--Madison National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National Institute of Arts and Letters (U.S.)
Profession or occupationPoets Novelists African American authors
Found inA street in Bronzeville, 1945.
On Gwendolyn Brooks, 1996: CIP pref. (Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks)
Gwendolyn Brooks' Maud Martha, 2002: CIP galley (d. Dec. 3, 2000)
In Montgomery, and other poems, 2003: CIP galley (b. June 7, 1917)
Information from 678 converted Dec. 17, 2014 (poet)
African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Brooks, Gwendolyn, Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks; poet and novelist; born 07 June 1917 in Topeka, Kansas, United States; associate's degree from Wilson Junior College; active in the Youth Council of the NAACP; taught at Chicago's Columbia College (1963); throughout the 1960s and 1970s she would go on to teach also at Elmhurst College, Northeastern Illinois University, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, among other schools; in 1976 became the first black woman elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters; poetry consultant to the Library of Congress (1985); died 03 December 2000 in Chicago, Illinois, United States)
Wikipedia, viewed January 7, 2016 entry for Gwendolyn Brooks ([Gwendolyn Brooks] was the first child of David Anderson Brooks and Keziah (Wims) Brooks)