Gwendolyn+Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks lived a happy and successful life, starting in her early years. Gwendolyn Brooks was born on June 17, 1917 in Topeka, Kansas. During her early life she had poems published everywhere. When she was eleven some of her poems got published in a newspaper called “Hyde Parker”. At age thirteen one of her poems (“Eventide”) got published in a children’s magazine called “American Childhood”. At sixteen she had weekly poems published in the “Light and Shadows’ column of a Chicago newspaper. Her poems were so famous that Langston Hughes read some of her poems and told her to keep writing. She also had a really good life as an adult, too. At twenty eight years old, Gwendolyn Brooks had her first collection of poems published in a book called “ A Street in Bronzeville”. At age thirty three more collections were made and published. At the same age, she was the first African American to get a Pulitzer Prize.Then she started a workshop for a street gang called Blackstone Rangers in Chicago. After that, the great Gwendolyn Brooks died on December 3, 2000, in Chicago, Illinois.
 * by Taylor, Grade 6**