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 Gwendolyn Brooks. Illinois State Library, Springfield, Illinois
N 39° 47.937 W 089° 39.185
16S E 272856 N 4408810
Illinois State Library
Waymark Code: WM6BK2
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 05/09/2009
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Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1917 and raised in Chicago. She is the author of more than twenty books of poetry, including Children Coming Home (The David Co., 1991); Blacks (1987); To Disembark (1981); The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems (1986); Riot (1969); In the Mecca (1968); The Bean Eaters (1960); Annie Allen (1949), for which she received the Pulitzer Prize; and A Street in Bronzeville (1945). She also wrote numerous other books including a novel, Maud Martha (1953), and Report from Part One: An Autobiography (1972), and edited Jump Bad: A New Chicago Anthology (1971). In 1968 she was named Poet Laureate for the state of Illinois, and from 1985-86 she 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 Foundation. She lived in Chicago until her death on December 3, 2000.
The above credits belong to; www.poets.org
Year it was dedicated: June 6, 2003
Location of Coordinates: Springfield, Illinois
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Type of place/structure you are waymarking: Illinois State Library, Springfield, Illinois
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