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African American literature
The body of writing or performed art produced by African slaves and their descendants in America. One of its earliest forms was the slave narrative where the author describes the ...
Alice Walker
(1944– )Black US novelist and poet whose writing explores racial and sexual politics as they affect African-American women.Born into a family of sharecroppers in Eatonton, Georgia, Alice Walker ...
Anne Spencer
(1882–1975), poet, librarian, community activist,and muse and confidante to Harlem Renaissance intellectuals and literati. Anne Spencer was born inauspiciously on a Virginia plantation. Yet the ...
Annie Allen
The second book of poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, Annie Allen (1949) won the Eunice Tietjens Prize offered by Poetry Magazine and the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.The collection is dominated by a long ...
Askia M. Touré
(b. 1938), poet, community activist, lecturer, and educator.Askia M. Touré, in his multifaceted roles as poet, community activist, lecturer, and educator, is recognized as one of the original ...
Ba-Ad Woman
This is a two-word phrase in which pronunciation obviously conveys attitude. “Ba-ad woman” is used to denote black women who do not conform to the mores of their communities and ...
Bill Knott
(1940– ),was born in Michigan, and spent some of his childhood on a Michigan farm. His mother died when he was 6, his father when he was 11, and he ...
Black Aesthetic
The foundations of the black aesthetic can be traced back to the nineteenth century and to a tradition of earlier writings, social and cultural movements, and literary manifestos extending into ...
Black Arts Movement
Founded in Harlem in the mid‐1960s by Amiri Baraka and promoted by Larry Neal (1937–81), the movement supported cultural separatism and the Black Power movement, and sought to devise a ...
Bronzeville Boys and Girls
Often overlooked in analyses of the career of Gwendolyn Brooks are her works for children. As a result of her own childhood filled with books, she is committed not only to the importance of reading ...
Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917–2000) Reference library
Edward Butscher
The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry (2 ed.)
Born in Topeka, Kansas, and graduated from Chicago's Wilson Junior College in 1936. She married Henry Blakely in 1939
Brooks, Gwendolyn (b. 7 June 1917) Reference library
Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present
(b. 7 June 1917; d. 3 December 2000),
poet and community activist. Gwendolyn Brooks was born
Brooks, Gwendolyn Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet, novelist, activist, and teacher, stands out for her social engagement, her professional generosity, and her literary
Brooks, Gwendolyn Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English
(1917–2000),
American poet, born in Topeka, Kansas. She grew up in Chicago, where she was educated at Wilson Junior College; the city, where she has spent most of her life, and ...
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Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917) Reference library
The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
Although she was born on 7 June 1917 in Topeka, Kansas—the first child of David and Keziah Brooks—Gwendolyn Brooks is
Brooks, Gwendolyn Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
(1917–2000), African American poet and novelist, born in Topeka, Kansas, and reared and educated in Chicago. By age
Brooks, Gwendolyn Reference library
Ann Folwell Stanford
The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States
(1917–2000), poet, novelist, and autobiographer.
The first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize (1950), Brooks's career has been characterized by a commitment to and ...
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The Oxford Companion to American Literature (6 ed.)
(1917–2000),
poet reared in Chicago's slums, whose works include A Street in Bronzeville (1945), lyrics; Annie Allen...
Calvin Forbes
(b.1945), poet, lecturer, and educator.Calvin Forbes was born the seventh of eight children in Newark, New Jersey, to Jacob and Mary Short Forbes. He was the first of the six boys in his family to ...
Carolyn M. Rodgers
(1945–2010), poet, short-fiction writer, literary critic, and lecturer.A Chicago native, Carolyn Marie Rodgers was influenced artistically in young adulthood by Gwendolyn Brooks and by the ...
