Category:Gwendolyn Brooks

**Gwendolyn Brooks**
	African American writer
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Date of birth	7 June 1917; Topeka
Date of death	3 December 2000; Chicago
Manner of death	natural causes;
Cause of death	cancer;
Place of burial	Lincoln Cemetery;
Work period (start)	1930;
Country of citizenship	United States of America;
Residence	Illinois; South Side (–2000); Topeka; Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartments;
Educated at	Englewood Technical Prep Academy; Hyde Park Academy High School; Kennedy–King College (associate degree, –1936); Wendell Phillips Academy High School;
Occupation	poet; writer; novelist; teacher;
Employer	Chicago State University; NAACP;
Member of	American Academy of Arts and Letters;
Field of work	poetry;
Native language	English;
Child	Nora Brooks Blakely;
Work location	Chicago;
Award received	Guggenheim Fellowship (1946); National Medal of Arts; National Women's Hall of Fame (1988); Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1950); Library of Congress Living Legend; Langston Hughes Medal (1979); Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (1969); United States Poet Laureate (1985); Robert Frost Medal (1989); Jefferson Lecture (1994); Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize; Black Literary Hall of Fame (1998); Kuumba Liberation Award (1969); Academy of American Poets Fellowship (1999); Shelley Memorial Award (1976);
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