Gwendolyn Brooks
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Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an Pulitzer Prize- winning African-American poet.She was best noted for her poetry books like Annie Allen,We Real Cool,and one of her popular books Malcom X.
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas to Keziah Wims Brooks and David Anderson Brooks. Brooks' mother was a former school teacher who left teaching for marriage and motherhood, and her father, the son of a runaway slave who fought in the Civil War, had given...
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