Gwendolyn Brooks: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Harry B. Shaw, Gwendolyn Brooks (1980); George E. Kent, A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks (1990); D.H. Melhem, Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry & the Heroic Voice (1987); Maria K. Mootry and Gary Smith (eds.), A Life Distilled: Gwendolyn Brooks, Her Poetry and Fiction (1987).

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
First paragraph modernization. Feb 19, 2024
Article thoroughly revised. Feb 01, 2024
Anniversary information added. Nov 29, 2023
Anniversary information added. Jun 03, 2023
Links added. Jan 26, 2023
Media added. Dec 03, 2021
Modified link of Web site: The Poetry Archive - Biography of Gwendolyn Brooks. Jan 30, 2020
Add new Web site: National Women’s Hall of Fame - Biography of Gwendolyn Brooks. Jan 31, 2019
Add new Web site: Kansas Historical Society - Kansapedia - Biography of Gwendolyn Brooks. Jan 31, 2019
Add new Web site: Blackpast.org - Biography of Gwendolyn Brooks. Oct 17, 2014
Add new Web site: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of English - Modern American Poetry - Biography of Gwendolyn Brooks. Feb 19, 2013
Add new Web site: The Poetry Archive - Biography of Gwendolyn Brooks. Feb 04, 2013
Add new Web site: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of English - Modern American Poetry - Biography of Gwendolyn Brooks. Feb 04, 2013
Add new Web site: Poetry Foundation - Biography of Gwendolyn Brooks. Dec 28, 2012
Add new Web site: Modern American Poetry - Biography of Gwendolyn Brooks. Dec 28, 2012
Add new Web site: Illinois Poet Laureate - Biography of Gwendolyn Brooks. Dec 28, 2012
Changed the year she won a Pulitzer Prize from "1949" to "1950." Apr 01, 2010
Added new Web site: Academy of American Poets - Biography of Gwendolyn Brooks. Aug 01, 2006
Article revised. Dec 21, 2000
Article revised. Dec 07, 1999
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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