The Biography of
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
Early Life
Born: June 7,1917 in Topeka,Kansas Died: December 3,2000 in the South side of Chicago at age 83 Born to David and Keziah Brooks, her parents
Education
1934-Graduated from Englewood High School 1936-Graduated from Chicago’s Wilson Junior Collage
Major Action
Writes about suburban ladies who go into the ghetto to give occasional aid or a black mother who has had an abortion
Life Events
Won the first Pulitzer Prize awarded to an African American woman in 1950 John F. Kennedy invited her to a library of congress poetry festival in 1962
Influences
Poet, Paul Dunbar Richard Wright encouraged her to continue writing poetry She tried to influence inner city children to see “the poetry” in their lives
Contributions
For the black movement, she didn’t take sides of the human race (blacks and whites)
Friends
Edward Bland,had been killed during World War 2 in Germany on March 20,1945
Impact on the world
To try to make children and adults to write poetry
Works Cited
Pictures - Google Images and Microsoft Clip Art Gewndolyn Brooks Poet from Chicago Biography.com www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/br ooks/life.htm