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Gwendolyn Brooks

7 June 1917 - 3 December 2000

An American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community (Wikipedia).

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  • Cover of: To Gwen with love: an anthology dedicated to Gwendolyn Brooks.

    First published in 1971 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Sotheby's International Poetry competition: 1982 anthology

    First published in 1984 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: We are shining

    First published in 2017 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: In the Mecca: poems

    First published in 1968 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The Poetry of Black America: Anthology of the 20th Century

    First published in 1973 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The Near-Johannesburg Boy, and Other Poems

    First published in 1991 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Blacks

    First published in 1992 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: A Portion of that field: the centennial of the burial of Lincoln

    First published in 1967 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Jump bad: a new Chicago anthology.

    First published in 1971 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Jump Bad: A New Chicago Anthology. Presented By Gwendolyn Brooks.

    First published in 1971 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Aurora.

    First published in 1972 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Beckonings: [poems]

    First published in 1975 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Black Position, No 1

    First published in 1971 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Black Position, No 2

    First published in 1972 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Black Position, No 3

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  • Cover of: Black Position, No 4

    First published in 1976 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Black steel: Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali

    First published in 1971 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: A Broadside Treasury, 1965-1970

    First published in 1971 1 edition — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Capsule Course in Black Poetry Writing

    First published in 1975 1 edition — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Children coming home

    First published in 1991 1 edition in 1 language
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Subjects
Poetry, American poetry, African Americans, Fiction, African American authors, American literature, Classic Literature, History, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Children's fiction, Union, hanging, Confederacy, Drama, Literary collections, Literature, United States Civil War, short story, African American poets, American Civil War, American drama, History and criticism, Juvenile audience, Prisoners, Readers (Secondary)
Places
United States, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge, Mallard residence, Massachusetts, Milford meeting house, Andover, Barbados, China, Eastern Europe, England, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Missouri, Salem, Salem (Mass.), Soviet Union, Chicago (Ill.), Glendale College Library, Illinois, Illinois River, Oklahoma, Ozark Mountains, Saint Louis, Tahlequah, kingdom by the sea
People
Peyton Farquhar, Brently Mallard, Devil, Elizabeth, Josephine, Louise Mallard, Mr. Hooper, Richards, Abigail Williams, Amanda Wingfield, Ann Putnam, Arthur Miller (1915-), Betty Parris, Bridget Bishop, Elizabeth Proctor, Ethelred, Ezekiel Cheever, George Herrick, George Jacobs, Giles Corey, God, Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-), Jim O'Connor, John Hale, John Hathorne
Time
1861-1865, 19th century, American Civil War, Civil War, 1861-1865, 1861-65, 20th century, 1692, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, 20th Century, 1600s, Civil War, December, carnival

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  • Gwendolyn BROOKS
  • Gwendolyn 1917- Brooks

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July 4, 2023 Edited by OnFrATa merge authors
September 27, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ids
June 12, 2017 Edited by JeffKaplan merge authors
June 7, 2017 Edited by Agnes Reid Very brief bio & Wikipedia link added
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import