Gwendolyn Brooks

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Born:
June 7, 1917
Died:
Dec. 3, 2000

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An American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community (Wikipedia).

Books by Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks: Selected Poems (P.S.) (Paperback, 2006, Harper Perennial Modern Classics) 4 stars

Selected Poems (P.S.)

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Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Thomas Jefferson, Esther Forbes, Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy Parker, Denise Levertov, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Tom Wolfe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Abraham Lincoln, Kurt Vonnegut, N. Scott Momaday, Ray Bradbury, William Carlos Williams, Maxine Kumin, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert E. Lee, Emily Dickinson, Jacques Barzun, Adrienne Rich, James Baldwin, Robinson Jeffers, John Steinbeck, Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, Galway Kinnell, Willa Cather, Flannery O'Connor, Eugenia Collier, Henry David Thoreau, Walter Blair, Henry James, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, Irwin Shaw, Bret Harte, Leslie Silko, Lewis Thomas, Ezra Pound, Frederick Douglass, George Santayana, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Stephen Crane, Tennessee Williams, O. Henry, Lawson Fusao Inada, Langston Hughes, Cotton Mather, Herman Melville, Morris Bishop, Robert Penn Warren, Annie Dillard, E.B. White, Ralph Ellison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Kate Chopin, Marianne Moore, Amiri Baraka, Margaret Walker, Lorraine Hansberry, James E. Miller, Isaac Asimov, William Faulkner, Carlotta Cardenas de Dwyer, Robert Hayden, Russell J. Hogan, Kerry M. Wood Miller, James E. Miller Jr., Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer, Kerry M. Wood, John Smith, William Bradford, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, Jonathan Edwards, Anne Bradstreet, Taylor, Edward, Phillis Wheatley, Ernest Hemingway, Philip Morin Freneau, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, John Updike, Bernard Malamud, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, James W. C. Pennington, Francis Wright, Edward Rowe Snow, Seattle Chief, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Mollie Dorsey Sanford, Sidney Lanier, Satanta, T. S. Eliot, Richard Wright, Chief Joseph, Paul Farmer, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Eugene O'Neill, Eudora Welty, Amy Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Frost, Countee Cullen, Elinor Wylie, Sara Teasdale, James Weldon Johnson, John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, Phyllis McGinley, Arna Wendell Bontemps, Claude McKay, Louise Bogan, Lillian Hellman, Sabine R. Ulibarrí, Mona Van Duyn, Richard Wilbur, David Wagoner, Theodore Roethke, Karl Jay Shapiro, Richard Eberhart, May Swenson, Mari Evans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edith Wharton, Howard Nemerov, William Stafford, Randall Jarrell, John N. Morris, Vern Rutsala, Jim Wayne Miller, James Masao Mitsui, Gary Soto, Teresa Palomo Acosta, Jean Toomer, Benjamin Franklin, Theodore Hornberger, Margaret Wasson, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Conrad Aiken, Byrd, William, Captain John Smith, George Washington, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Paul Hamilton Hayne, Henry Timrod, Abram Joseph Ryan, Sarah Orne Jewett, William Saroyan, Stephen Vincent Benét, Paul Engle, Vachel Lindsay, Leonie Adams, James Wright, Ogden Nash, David McCord, Sylvia Plath, Richard Willard Armour, Don Marquis, E. J. Kahn, Paul Horgan, White, W. L., John Davenport, Cleveland Amory, Norman Cousins, Frank C. Laubach, Jesse Stuart, Douglas S. Freeman, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Philip Hamburger, Robert C. Pooley, Day, Clarence, Theresa Helburn, Brad Schulberg, Conrad Richter, Carson McCullers, Vannevar Bush, Richard Rodriguez, Robert Lowell, Robert Anderson, Patrick F. McManus, James Thurber, Thomas Paine, Carl Sandburg, Pearl S. Buck, W. H. Auden, Edgar Lee Masters, William Least Heat Moon, Gwendolyn Brooks, Thornton Wilder: The United States in Literature (Hardcover, 1979, Scott, Foresman and Company) 3 stars

The United States in Literature

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Maud Martha (1992) 4 stars

Maud Martha

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Blacks (1992) No rating

Blacks

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Gwendolyn Brooks: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (American Poets Project) (Hardcover, 2005, Library of America) 3 stars

The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (American Poets Project)

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Gwendolyn Brooks: We real cool (1966, Broadside Press)

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We real cool

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Gwendolyn Brooks, Faith Ringgold: Bronzeville Boys and Girls (Paperback, 2015, Harpercollins, HarperCollins) 5 stars

Bronzeville Boys and Girls

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Selected poems (1999, Perennial Classics) No rating

Selected poems

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Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams, Rita Dove, Anna Quindlen, Sojourner Truth, Anonymous, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Jack London, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, Tom Wolfe, Simon J. Ortiz, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joni Mitchell, Patrick Henry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Abraham Lincoln, N. Scott Momaday, William Carlos Williams, Richard Lederer, Robert E. Lee, Emily Dickinson, James Baldwin, Alex Haley, John Steinbeck, Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, Willa Cather, Julia Alvarez, Henry David Thoreau, John Wesley Powell, Joy Harjo, Bailey White, Adrienne Rich, Tim O'Brien, Sherwood Anderson, Alice Walker, Katherine Anne Porter, Bret Harte, Ezra Pound, Frederick Douglass, Grace Paley, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Yusef Komunyakaa, Stephen Crane, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Maxine Hong Kingston, Herman Melville, Joel, Billy., Louise Erdrich, Sandra Cisneros, Robert Penn Warren, Annie Dillard, Arthur Miller, E.B. White, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Kate Chopin, Marianne Moore, Larry McMurtry, Amy K. Duer, John F. Kennedy, Christopher Columbus, Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, Darryl Babe Wilson, John Smith, Edward Taylor, Steve Wulf, Phillis Wheatley, Michel-guillaume Jean De Crevecoeur, Emily Saliers, Angela De Hoyos, William Faulkner, Robert Hayden, Stephen Foster, George Cooper, Robert E. Lee, Goss, Warren Lee, McKim, Randolph H., Stonewall Jackson, William Bradford, Rev. Henry M. Turner, Molly Moore, Miriam Davis Colt, Anne Bradstreet, James Cloyd Bowman, Phillis Wheatley, Ricardo Sanchez, Ernest Hemingway, John Hersey, William Cullen Bryant, John Updike, Bernard Malamud, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, Margaret Fuller, Chief Joseph, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, T. S. Eliot, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Frost, Countee Cullen, Flannery Oconnor, Diana Chang, Eudora Welty, Wallace Stevens, Arna Wendell Bontemps, Claude McKay, Garret Hongo, E. L. Doctorow, Colleen McElroy, Ian Frazier, Joyce Carol Oates, Theodore Roethke, William Stafford, Randall Jarrell, Anne Tyler, Edith Wharton, Jean Toomer, Benjamin Franklin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Martin Espada, Sylvia Plath, Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, Jonathan Edwards, Amy Tan, Carson McCullers, Meriwether Lewis, Robert Lowell, James Thurber, Thomas Paine, Carl Sandburg, W. H. Auden, Edgar Lee Masters, Gwendolyn Brooks: Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes (Hardcover, 1999, Prentice Hall) 4 stars

Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Riot (Paperback, 1969, Broadside Press, Brand: Broadside Press) No rating

Riot

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Gwendolyn Brooks: The world of Gwendolyn Brooks. (1971, Harper & Row) 4 stars

The world of Gwendolyn Brooks.

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Maud Martha (1953, Harper & Brothers) No rating

Maud Martha

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William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Shel Silverstein, Robert D. Ballard, Virginia Hamilton, Kevin Feldman, Jack London, , Cynthia Rylant, James Berry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack Prelutsky, Ray Bradbury, Paul Zindel, Aesop, Lewis Carroll, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, John Phillip Santos, Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, Julia Alvarez, Octavio Paz, Richard Peck, Lloyd Alexander, Laurence Yep, Fredrick McKissack, Jr., Bailey White, George Eliot, Leslie Silko, Christopher Paul Curtis, Chinua Achebe, Edgar Allan Poe, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Helen Keller, Rachel Field, Olivia E. Coolidge, Eve Merriam, Julius Lester, Langston Hughes, Pam Muñoz Ryan, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Colleen, Ph. D. Shea-stump, Joyce Armstrong Carroll, Walter Dean Myers, Edward E. Wilson, Charlotte Pomerantz, Carl Zebrowski, Geoffrey C. Ward, Arnold Adoff, Nikki Giovanni, Jerry Spinelli, Leo Tolstoy, Rosemary Benét, John Gardner, Myron Levoy, Amanda Borden, William Harwood, Kerry Cochrane, Lillian Morrison, Bashö, l. G. Edmonds, Ricardo E. Alegria, Tran, My-Van., Sandra Cisneros, George Laycock, Martin Waddell, Arthur Miller, Rudyard Kipling, Susy Clemens, Isaac Asimov, Jean Craighead George, Joseph Bruchac, Diana Chang, Russell Baker, Robert Frost, Francisco Jiménez, Sara Teasdale, Arthur C. Clarke, Gary Soto, Ken Burns, Judith Viorst, Stephen Vincent Benét, Ogden Nash, Jesse Stuart, Pat McKissack, Jane Yolen, Joan Aiken, Garrison Keillor, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Susan Nanus, James Thurber, Kate Kinsella, Lensey Namioka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Russell Freedman: Prentice Hall Literature (Hardcover, 2002, Prentice Hall) No rating

Prentice Hall Literature

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Gwendolyn Brooks, Margo Jefferson: Maud Martha (Faber Editions) (Paperback, 2022, Faber & Faber, Limited) 5 stars

Maud Martha (Faber Editions)

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Gwendolyn Brooks: The Near-Johannesburg Boy, and Other Poems (Paperback, 1991, Third World Press) No rating

The Near-Johannesburg Boy, and Other Poems

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