Gwendolyn+Brooks

GWENDOLYN BROOKS Gwendolyn Brooks was important to me because she wrote poems and they teach you a lot she has been living for wonderful years she was born on June 7th 1917 in Topeka Kansas she has been writing since 1920 tell 2000 sadly the time comes she passes away that date was December 3rd 2000 From 1985-86 Brooks was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She also received an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, the Frost Medal, a National Endowment for the Arts award, the Shelley Memorial Award, and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets and the Guggenheim  