Gwendolyn Brooks
A Street in Bronzeville
originally published:
1945
We offered this copy of the first edition in our List 31.
awards:
- First Book(1945)
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry(1950)
- Blockson101(1945)
- Library of Congress 88 Books That Shaped America(1945)
reference info
bio notes:
born: 6/7/1917
died: 12/3/2000
born as: Gwendolyn Brooks
American poet whose works deal with the everyday life of urban blacks. She was the first black poet to win the Pulitzer Prize (1949). - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
