Gwendolyn Brooks was an influential 20th-century poet and the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1950). She was also the first African American woman to be appointed poetry consultant to the U.S. Library of Congress (1985; the poetry consultant position was a forerunner of the title of U.S. poet laureate).
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