Gwendolyn Brooks is a prominent African American poet of the twentieth century, and is known for her indelible impact in African American literature. Brooks was born in 1917 in Topeka, Kansas. Soon after her birth her family moved to Chicago, the city where she was associated with the rest of life. Her family was ... the Harlem Renaissance; a writing that mildly political, while still not being militantly confrontational with the issues of racial hardships. In 1949 she published the book Annie Allen. For this collection Brooks became the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize. In...

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