Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks 

Gwendolyn Brooks was born on June 7,1917. Brooks is an American poet. In the last twenty-five years’ African American women poets have become a major force and they have been given the acclaim so long denied to their predecessors. Pulitzer Prizes have been awarded to some of them as a recognition of their work. Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African American woman to receive it. The major theme of their works is their liberation both as a women and as African American poets.