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Article: Gwendolyn Brooks, 83, Who Won Pulitzer Prize For Poetry, Dies.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
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- December 18, 2000
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, who promoted an understanding of Black culture through her poetry while suggesting inclusiveness as the key to harmony, recently died of cancer. She was 83.
Brooks became the first Black to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for her second book of poetry, Annie Allen.
She wrote hundreds of poems, had more than 20 books published, and has been Illinois' poet laureate since 1968. Her candid and compassionate poetry delved into poverty and racism.
Her 1960 collection of poetry, The Bean Eaters, included one of her most famous poems, We Real Cool.
"I believe that we should all know each other, we ...