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    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    OTHER PUBLICATIONS

     

    Maud Martha, 1953

    The World of Gwendolyn Brooks, 1971 

    A Broadside Treasury (Editor), 1971

    Jump Bad: A New Chicago Anthology (Editor), 1971

    Report from Part One, 1972

    The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves, 1974

    A Capsule Course in Black Poetry Writing (with Don L. Lee,

    Keorapetse Kgositsile and Dudley Randall), 1975

    Primer for Blacks, 1980

    Young Poets’ Primer, 1981

    Very Young Poets, 1983

    Report from Part Two, 1995

    In Montgomery and other poems, 2003 (posthumously)

     

    Aloneness, 1971

    Beckonings, 1975

    To Disembark, 1981

    The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems, 1986 

    Blacks, 1987

    Winnie, 1988

    Gottschalk and the Grande Tarantelle, 1988

    Children Coming Home, 1991

     

    POETRY

     

    A Street in Bronzeville, 1945

    Annie Allen, 1949

    Bronzeville Boys and Girls, 1956

    The Bean Eaters, 1960

    Selected Poems, 1963

    In the Mecca, 1968

    Riot, 1969

    Family Pictures, 1970

               fact:

    Gwendolyn Brooks

    has been celebrated with

     Over 70

    honorary doctorates!

         HONORS

     

           Include:

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    • American Academy of Arts and Letters Grant, 1946

    • Guggenheim Fellowship, 1946 & 1947

    • Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, 1950

    • Thormod Monsen Award (from Chicago’s “Poetry”), 1964

    • Ferguson Memorial Award, 1964

    • Poet Laureate of Illinois, 1968

    • Anisfield-Wolf Award, 1968

    • Black Academy Award, 1971

    • Shelley Memorial Award, 1976

    • Frost Medal, Poetry Society of America, 1988

    • National Endowment for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award, 1989

    • Nat’l Endowment For The Humanities Jefferson Lecturer, 1991 & 1994

    • Aiken-Taylor Award, 1992

    • National Book Foundation Medal, 1994

    • National Medal of Arts, 1995 (from the President)

    • Academy of Americn Poets 65th Fellowship, 2000

    • Living Legend-Library of Congress Medal, 2000

    Brooks Permissions: Continuing The Relevance of Gwendolyn Brooks

    into the 21st Century... And Beyond!!

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