Gwendolyn+Brooks

= Gwendolyn Brooks: =
 * ﻿ ﻿ ﻿﻿born in Topeka, Kansas, on June 7th, 1917
 * father: David Anderson Brooks (was a runaway slave)
 * mother: Keziah Corinne Brooks
 * eldest of three children
 * shy throughout childhood and adulthood
 * wasn't very social as a child
 * Brooks love of poetry made itself known at an early age
 * By the age of 16, Brooks wrote over 75 poems!
 * Brooks love of poetry made itself known at an early age
 * in 1930 at an age of 13 she puplished her first poem
 * graduated in 1936
 * in 1939 she married Henry Blakely
 * in 1940 the couple had their first son Henry, in 1951 they had their daughter Nora
 * In the 1950s, Brooks published her first and only novel//, Maud Martha//
 * African-American
 * wrote about African-American dreams and struggles
 * first African American to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * During the 1970s, she taught poetry at multiple institutions for higher learning, including Northeastern Illinois University, University of Wisconsin at Madison, and the City College of the City University of New York
 * By the time she was seventeen, she was publishing poems frequently in the Chicago Defender, a newspaper serving Chicago's black population
 * She wrote Children Coming Home, which was published in 1991
 * died in Chicago, Illinois, on December 3, 2000. She was 83 years old.
 * died of cancer







Gwendolyn Brooks most known poems: 1. Sadie and Maud 2. Speach to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward **13.Kitchenette Building** **14.A Sunset of the City** **15.Garabageman: The Man With the Olderly Mind**
 * 3.The Ballad of Rudolph Reed **
 * 4.The Bean Eaters **
 * 5.The Crazy Woman **
 * 6.The Good Man **
 * 7.The Independent Man **
 * 8.The Lovers of the Poor **
 * 9.The Sonnet-Ballad **
 * 10.To Be In Love **
 * 11.To the Dispora **
 * 12.We Real Cool **

Poem (Sadie and Maud): Maud went to college. Sadie stayed home. Sadie scraped life With a fine toothed comb.

She didn't leave a tangle in Her comb found every strand. Sadie was one of the livingest chicks In all the land.

Sadie bore two babies Under her maiden name. Maud and Ma and Papa Nearly died of shame.

When Sadie said her last so-long Her girls struck out from home. (Sadie left as heritage Her fine-toothed comb.)

Maud, who went to college, Is a thin brown mouse. She is living all alone In this old house.

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