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Gwendolyn Brooks

 

Sadly, Ms. Brooks passed away in December, 2000

Periodical Publications:

Book Publications:

  • Report from Part Two (1996) , Blacks (1991) & The Near-Johannesburg Boy (1991), Third World Press
  • Children Coming Home (1991), Gottschalk and the Grande Tarantelle (1988) & Winnie (1988), The David Company
  • Many others

Forthcoming Publications:

Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors:

  • Lincoln Laureate Award, 1997
  • National Medal of Arts, 1995
  • Jefferson Lecturer, National Endowment for the Humanities, Lifetime Achievement Award, 1994
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, 1990
  • Senior Fellowship in Literature, National Endowment for the Arts The Frost Medal, Poetry Society of America, 1989

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