Poet (7-Jun-1917 — 3-Dec-2000)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Gloria Wade Gayles. Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks. University Press of Mississippi. 2003. 192pp.

George E. Kent. A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. 1990.

Haki R. Madhubuti. Say That the River Turns: The Impact of Gwendolyn Brooks. Third World Press. 1987.

D. H. Melhem. Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry and the Heroic Voice. University Press of Kentucky. 1987.

Maria K. Mootry; Gary Smith (editors). A Life Distilled: Gwendolyn Brooks, Her Poetry and Fiction. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. 1987.

Harry B. Shaw. Gwendolyn Brooks. Twayne Publishers. 1980. 200pp.

Stephen Caldwell Wright. On Gwendolyn Brooks: Reliant Contemplation. University of Michigan Press. 2001. 288pp.

AUTHORITIES

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Wikipedia [link]

4. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of American Writers

5. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.137)

6. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.98)

7. Webster's American Biographies (p.140)

8. New York Public Library Literature Companion (p.36)

9. The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 5th Edition (p.101)

10. Celebrity Register 3rd Issue (p.66)

11. Celebrity Register 4th Issue (p.63)

12. Twentieth Century Authors, First Supplement (p.128)

13. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.139)

14. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.90)

15. The International Who's Who 2001 (p.217)

16. 100 Greatest African Americans: A Biographical Encyclopedia (pp.66-68)

17. International Dictionary of Women's Biography (p.81)

18. Almanac of American Women in the 20th Century (p.95)

19. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (vol.1, p.365)

20. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English (p.144)

21. Who's Who in Twentieth-Century World Poetry (p.49)

22. Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography (p.90)

23. Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States (p.136)

24. Legends in Their Own Time (p.34)

25. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.2)

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