Gwendolyn Brooks

Poetry, Pultizer Prize

Quote: "Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else." (Source: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/gwendolyn-brooks-quotes

Biography: An American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May 1, 1950, for Annie Allen, allowing her to be the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize. Poet Gwendolyn Brooks moved to Chicago at a young age. She began writing and publishing as a teenager, eventually achieving national fame for her 1945 collection A Street in Bronzeville. In 1950 Brooks became the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, for her book Annie Allen. (Source: https://www.biography.com/writer/gwendolyn-brooks).