Our critic A.O. Scott marvels at the power and paradox of a sonnet by Gwendolyn Brooks. By A.O. Scott Chicago is a city of bookish abundance, home to countless literary giants past and present. The ...

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 memorialize ...

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The Gwendolyn Brooks Cultural Center is named after the first African-American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Poet Laureate of Illinois, Gwendolyn Brooks. Founded in 1970, the Gwendolyn Brooks ...

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Gwendolyn Joanne Brooks of Grandview entered into her eternal home surrounded by the support of her loving family at Sacred Heart Hospital on July 30, 2019. Gwendolyn was born June 5, 1931 to John and ...