Gwendolyn Brooks has been a leading force in American letters ... Born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1917, she was the first Black writer to win the Pulitzer Prize (1950 for Annie Allen). Author of more than ...

Although Gwendolyn Brooks had won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1950, Sleet was the first African-American man to win one, and the first African-American to win one for journalism. Sleet had come ...

The Gwendolyn Brooks Cultural Center is named after the first African-American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Poet Laureate of Illinois, Gwendolyn Brooks. Founded in 1970, the Gwendolyn Brooks ...

A portrait of Gwendolyn Brooks, an African-American poet whose imagination, conscience and passion for words made her the first black poet to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1950. Show more Gwendolyn ...

The Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra celebrated a first in November, releasing a children’s record that combines music with narration to celebrate legends in the arts. IPO music director Stilian ...