BY WALTER OPINDE Lizabeth Gwendolyn Brooks, best known as the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize for her 1950 book Annie Allen, was a prominent postwar poetess in the U.S. Brooks was an American poetess, teacher, and author whose literary works focused on personal struggles and celebrations of the ordinary people of the Black […]

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