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 ...

When she was a young girl growing up on the South Side, Gwendolyn Brooks would sit on her back porch and write, her daughter said. It was in that quiet space that Brooks could let her mind float ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I discovered Gwendolyn Brooks when she won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Chicago’s newspapers applauded her. She was a Chicagoan, a woman, and the first African American thus honored.