$5.00 Vintage Postcard Black Writers PHOTOGRAPHS BY JILL KREMENTZ GWENDOLYN BROOKS, New York, N.Y., November 13, 1993 Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917) has earned, with her gently insightful poetry, some fifty honorary degrees, a Pulitzer Prize for Annie Allen 1949), the Illinois Laureateship (succeeding Carl Sandburg), and the Consultantship in Poetry at the Library of Congress. She still lives near where she grew up βthe South Side of Chicago, the setting for much of her verse.
$5.00 Vintage Postcard Black Writers PHOTOGRAPHS BY JILL KREMENTZ GWENDOLYN BROOKS, New York, N.Y., November 13, 1993 Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917) has earned, with her gently insightful poetry, some fifty honorary degrees, a Pulitzer Prize for Annie Allen 1949), the Illinois Laureateship (succeeding Carl Sandburg), and the Consultantship in Poetry at the Library of Congress. She still lives near where she grew up βthe South Side of Chicago, the setting for much of her verse.
