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Pulizer Prize winning poet, Gwendolyn Brooks.

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Women’s History Month Salute to Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet, Gwendolyn Brooks

One of Chicago’s own literary giants, poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African American Pulitzer Prize winner for her second book of poetry, titled, Annie Allen, began writing and publishing as a teenager, eventually achieving national fame for her 1945 collection, A Street in Bronzeville.