Brooksday, an annual celebration of the legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks, was created to prevent such literary misfortune. It is a free, open-house event to be held from noon to 6 p.m. June 7 — Brooks ...

Gwendolyn Brooks’s literary heritage will always loom large. Born a century ago on June 7, 1917, in Topeka, Kansas, Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks would move to the South Side of Chicago and ...

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 ...

Poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first black Pulitzer Prize winner, has died at the age of 83. Dr. Jifunza Wright, who became Brooks' attending physician recently, said the poet was diagnosed with ...

GWENDOLYN BROOKS may not be a household name ... Her young life was sustained by something we often lament the loss of today: a love of learning, taught at home. Her father, a janitor, read ...

Gwendolyn Brooks in 1979. “And the way she searched for the perfect word, I wanted to do that with my poems. I also tried to follow her devotion to people. Her love of, especially African ...