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)

Selected Poems (P.S.)

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James Baldwin, Herman Melville, E.B. White, Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Adrienne Rich, John Steinbeck, Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, W. E. B. Du Bois, Walt Whitman, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, Tom Wolfe, Sherwood Anderson, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Mark Twain, William Least Heat Moon, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Lewis Thomas, Eugene O'Neill, Gwendolyn Brooks, E. E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, Annie Dillard, Carson McCullers, Robert Lowell, William Carlos Williams, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe, Jean Toomer, W. H. Auden, Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, Thornton Wilder, Dorothy Parker, Ambrose Bierce, Washington Irving, John Updike, Edgar Lee Masters, Patrick F. McManus, Richard Wright, Richard Rodriguez, Leslie Marmon Silko, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Paine, N. Scott Momaday, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Crane, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Penn Warren, Galway Kinnell, Marianne Moore, Irwin Shaw, Margaret Walker, Ezra Pound, Lawson Fusao Inada, Vannevar Bush, Ralph Ellison, Amiri Baraka, Denise Levertov, Bernard Malamud, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bret Harte, Pearl S. Buck, Thomas Jefferson, Esther Forbes, Robert E. Lee, Katherine Anne Porter, Conrad Richter, George Santayana, Robinson Jeffers, William Saroyan, James Thurber, Carl Sandburg, Jacques Barzun, Robert Anderson, Cotton Mather, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Paul Farmer, Abraham Lincoln, James E. Miller, 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, Philip Morin Freneau, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, 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, Chief Joseph, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, 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, Maxine Kumin, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, William Stafford, Randall Jarrell, John N. Morris, Vern Rutsala, Jim Wayne Miller, James Masao Mitsui, Gary Soto, Teresa Palomo Acosta, Eugenia Collier, Walter Blair, Theodore Hornberger, Margaret Wasson, Bernard DeVoto, Conrad Aiken, Byrd, William, Captain John Smith, George Washington, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Paul Hamilton Hayne, Henry Timrod, Abram Joseph Ryan, Sarah Orne Jewett, O. Henry, Stephen Vincent Benét, Paul Engle, Vachel Lindsay, Leonie Adams, James Wright, Ogden Nash, David McCord, Morris Bishop, 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: The United States in Literature (Hardcover, 1979, Scott, Foresman and Company)

The United States in Literature

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Maud Martha (1992)

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)

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)

Bronzeville Boys and Girls

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

Selected poems

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

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)

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, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ray Bradbury, Octavio Paz, Isaac Asimov, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Arthur Miller, Walt Whitman, Arthur C. Clarke, Jack London, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Shel Silverstein, Maya Angelou, Jane Yolen, Chinua Achebe, Gwendolyn Brooks, E. E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, Lloyd Alexander, Laurence Yep, John Gardner, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe, , Sandra Cisneros, Martin Waddell, Garrison Keillor, Leslie Marmon Silko, Helen Keller, Jerry Spinelli, Julius Lester, Walter Dean Myers, Emily Dickinson, Jean Craighead George, Joan Aiken, Pat McKissack, Aesop, Joseph Bruchac, Russell Freedman, Julia Alvarez, Judith Viorst, Paul Zindel, Ken Burns, Richard Peck, Christopher Paul Curtis, Pam Muñoz Ryan, James Thurber, Robert Frost, Sara Teasdale, Gary Soto, Stephen Vincent Benét, Ogden Nash, Jesse Stuart, Nikki Giovanni, Virginia Hamilton, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Kevin Feldman, Cynthia Rylant, Susan Nanus, James Berry, Bailey White, Russell Baker, Myron Levoy, Jack Prelutsky, Robert D. Ballard, Olivia E. Coolidge, Eve Merriam, Geoffrey C. Ward, John Phillip Santos, Susy Clemens, Rachel Field, Kate Kinsella, Diana Chang, Francisco Jiménez, George Laycock, Lensey Namioka, Colleen, Ph. D. Shea-stump, Joyce Armstrong Carroll, Edward E. Wilson, Charlotte Pomerantz, Carl Zebrowski, Arnold Adoff, Rosemary Benét, Fredrick McKissack, Jr., Amanda Borden, William Harwood, Kerry Cochrane, Lillian Morrison, Bashö, l. G. Edmonds, Ricardo E. Alegria, Tran, My-Van.: Prentice Hall Literature (Hardcover, 2002, Prentice Hall)

Prentice Hall Literature

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

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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