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Article: Our Miss Brooks.
- Article from:
- Black Issues Book Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
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At age 83, she continues with us, strong as ever, and even more honored by her beloved community of poets--especially the community of black poets to whom she is a pioneering example and godmother.
Since 1950, after becoming the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for her second book of poetry, Annie Allen, Gwendolyn Brooks has emerged as one of our most honored poets. Born in Topeka, Kansas, in June 7, 1917, Ms. Brooks and her sturdy family of origin moved to the Chicago Southside during her infancy. She not only grew up and was educated there but, after marrying Henry Blakely in 1938, raised her own two children in the place she called Bronzeville.