Gwendolyn Brooks touched many artists, writers, and book lovers in her 70 years as a South Side poet. But the Pulitzer Prize winner is “woefully understudied in the literary canon,” says ...

Is love still possible ... my works” is part of a sequence. Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) was a modern master of the form. This one comes from her first collection, “A Street in Bronzeville ...

In 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African-American to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Hers was a Pulitzer in poetry, specifically for a volume titled Annie Allen that chronicled the life of ...