gwendolyn brooks

     

She was the first African-American author to win a Pulitzer Prize; she won in 1950 for her poetry

Trivia about gwendolyn brooks

  • In 1945 this poet laureate of Illinois published her first volume of poetry, "A Street In Bronzeville"
  • This black poetess won a Pulitzer for "Annie Allen" & became Illinois' poet laureate in 1969