VOICE ONE:
In nineteen fifty, Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. She won the prize for her second book of poems called "Annie Allen." "Annie Allen" is a collection of poetry about the life of a Bronzeville girl as a daughter, a wife and mother. She experiences loneliness, loss, death and being poor.
Miz Brooks said that winning the prize changed her life.
Her next work was a novel written in nineteen fifty-three called "Maud Martha." "Maud Martha" received little notice when it first was/published. But now it is considered an important work by some critics. Its main ideas about the difficult life of many women are popular among female writers today.
VOICE TWO:
Gwendolyn Brooks wrote poems about the black experience in America. She described the anger many blacks had about racial injustice and the feeling of being different. She used poetry to criticize those who did not show respect for the poor. Yet for all the anger in her writing, Gwendolyn Brooks was considered by many to be a gentle spirit and a very giving person.
By the early nineteen sixties, Miz Brooks had reached a high point in her writing career. She was considered one of America's leading black writers. She was a popular teacher. She was praised for her use of language and the way people identified with her writing.
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VOICE ONE:
Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas in nineteen seventeen. But she grew up in Chicago. She began writing when she was eleven years old. She mailed several poems to a community newspaper in Chicago to surprise her family.
In a radio broadcast in nineteen sixty-one, Miz Brooks said her mother urged her to develop her poetic skills:
GWENDOLYN BROOKS:
"My mother took me to the library when I was about four or five. I enjoyed reading poetry and I tried to write it when I was about seven, at the time that I first tried to put rhymes together. And I have loved it ever since."
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