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Gwendolyn Brooks falleció el 3 de diciembre de 2000 en su casa de Chicago. Obras Negro Hero (1945) The Mother (1945) A Street in Bronzeville (1945) Annie Allen (1950) Maud Martha (1953) Bronzeville Boys and Girls (1956) The Bean Eaters (1960) Selected Poems (1963) We Real Cool (1966) In the Mecca (1968) Malcolm X (1968) Family Pictures (1970)
We Real Cool. ‘We Real Cool’ by Gwendolyn Brooks describes the lives of seven pool players who lurk in the night, don’t go to school and plan on dying soon. ‘ We Real Cool’ by Gwendolyn Brooks is a four- stanza, eight-line poem that has been separated into repeating couplets. The poem is quite short and makes use of a minimal number ...
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000), one of the most prolific American poets of the twentieth century, was the first Black author to win a Pulitzer Prize in any category. Her career was marked by both her work’s accessibility and her concerns for social justice. Over more than five decades, Brooks’s connections to her community deepened along ...
Gwendolyn Brooks. Gwendolyn Brooks (* 7.Juni 1917 in Topeka, Kansas; † 3. Dezember 2000 in Chicago, Illinois) war eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin. 1950 wurde sie als erste Schwarze für ihren Gedichtband Annie Allen mit dem renommierten Pulitzer-Preis ausgezeichnet.
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In 1950, the year Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize, her editor asked her what made her write. Brooks answered that she wrote “to prove to others (by implication, not by shouting) and to such among themselves who have yet to discover it, that they are merely human beings, not exotics.”.
Gwendolyn Brooks grew up in Chicago in a poor yet stable and loving family. Her father was a janitor who had hoped to become a doctor; her mother a teacher and classically trained pianist. Brooks was thirteen when her first published poem, ‘Eventide’, appeared in American Childhood ; by seventeen she had published a number of poems in Chicago Defender , a newspaper serving Chicago’s ...
