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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: Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks

    First published in 2003 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (American Poets Project)

    First published in 2005 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Family pictures.

    First published in 1970 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: For Illinois, 1968: a sesquicentennial poem.

    First published in 1968 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Gottschalk and the grande tarantelle

    First published in 1988 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Gwendolyn Brooks CD Poetry Collection

    First published in 2005 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Gwendolyn Brooks Reads Her Poetry (Voice in Time)

    First published in 1989 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Her Poetry (Swc1244)

    First published in 1989 1 edition
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  • Cover of: In the time of detachment, in the time of cold, 1965

    First published in 1965 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Mayor Harold Washington ; and, Chicago, the I Will City

    First published in 1983 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Riot.

    First published in 1969 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The tiger who wore white gloves, or, What you are you are

    First published in 1974 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: To Disembark

    First published in 1981 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The wall: for Edward Christmas

    First published in 1967 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: We real cool

    First published in 1966 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The world of Gwendolyn Brooks.

    First published in 1971 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Young poet's primer

    First published in 1980 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: In the Mecca

    First published in 1968 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Prentice Hall Literature: Bronze

    First published in 1991 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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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