Gwendolyn Brooks: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
Born	June 7, 1917 • Topeka • Kansas
Died	December 3, 2000 (aged 83) • Chicago • Illinois
Awards And Honors	Pulitzer Prize
Notable Works	“A Street in Bronzeville” • “Annie Allen” • “Blacks” • “Bronzeville Girls and Boys” • “Children Coming Home” • “In the Mecca” • “Primer for Blacks” • “Report from Part One” • “Report from Part Two” • “Selected Poems” • “The Bean Eaters” • “The Near-Johannesburg Boy, and Other Poems” • “Winnie” • “Young Poet’s Primer”