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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 7 June 1917
- Died
- 3 December 2000
- Place of birth
- Topeka
- Place of death
- Chicago
- Sex or gender
- female
- Given name
- Gwendolyn
- Family name
- Brooks
- Mother
- Keziah C. Brooks
- Spouse
- Henry Blakely
- Child
- Nora Brooks Blakely
- Sibling
- Raymond Brooks
- Field of work
- poetry, fiction writing
- Citizenship
- United States
- Native language
- English
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship, National Medal of Arts, National Women's Hall of Fame, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Library of Congress Living Legend, Langston Hughes Medal, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, United States Poet Laureate, Robert Frost Medal, Jefferson Lecture, Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize, Black Literary Hall of Fame
- archives at
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- cause of death
- cancer
- described by source
- Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers, Notable Black American Women, American Women Writers
- educated at
- Englewood Technical Prep Academy, Hyde Park Academy High School, Kennedy–King College, Wendell Phillips Academy High School
- employer
- Chicago State University, NAACP
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- has works in the collection
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- influenced by
- Langston Hughes, Richard Wright
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- nominated for
- National Book Award for Poetry
- notable work
- Jump Bad: a New Chicago Anthology
- participant in
- Furious Flower Conference (1st: 1994)
- place of burial
- Lincoln Cemetery
- residence
- Illinois, South Side, Topeka, Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartments
- significant person
- Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, James Weldon Johnson
- start of work period
- 1930
- work location
- Chicago
- writing language
- English
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