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Gwendolyn Brooks — Poet of Bronzeville
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Gwendolyn Brooks wrote Chicago’s Bronzeville into American poetry, publishing A Street in Bronzeville in 1945 and winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for Annie Allen — the first Black writer to win one.
She served as Illinois Poet Laureate for 32 years, a tenure as towering as her verse.