Birth Name:

Gwendolyn Brooks

Female

Birth Date:

Sun, Jun 17, 1917

Time of Birth:

01:00 PM

Place of Birth:

Topeka, Kansas, United States

Age:

106

Zodiac Sign:

Gemini

Astrology Data:

Sun

25°

Gem

58'

Moon

5°

Gem

23'

Asc

3°

Lib

51'

MC

4°

Can

23'

About Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was 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, making her the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• (http://www.gwendolynbrooks.net/

• Gwendolyn Brooks Online Resources at the Library of Congress

• Gwendolyn Brooks Illinois Poet Laureate, State of Illinois

• Henry Lyman, "Interview: Gwendolyn Brooks Captures Chicago 'Cool'", NPR

• Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks at PoetryFoundation.org

• Gwendolyn Brooks: Profile and Poems at Poets.org

• Some poems by Brooks, Circle Brotherhood Association, SUNY Buffalo

• Gwendolyn Brooks, Modern American Poetry

• Online guide to the Gwendolyn Brooks Papers, The Bancroft Library

• "The Book Writers" Poem, patterned after Brooks's "The Bean Eaters" and dedicated to Brooks and Haki R. Madhubuti

• Lifetime Honors – National Medal of Arts

• Gwendolyn Brooks at Find a Grave

Birth Chart and Planetary Positions of Gwendolyn Brooks

Astrological portrait of Gwendolyn Brooks

Current important phases/events in Gwendolyn Brooks’s life

Gwendolyn Brooks's relationships

Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Gwendolyn Brooks: Sun 25 Gemini, Moon 5 Gemini, Mercury 3 Gemini, Venus 9 Cancer, Mars 2 Gemini, Jupiter 27 Taurus, Saturn 29 Cancer, Uranus 23 Aquarius, Neptune 3 Leo, Pluto 3 Cancer, Asc 3 Libra, Mc 4 Cancer, Moon Sextile Neptune, Moon Trine Ascendant, Sun Trine Uranus, Moon Conjunct Mars, Mercury Conjunct Jupiter, Moon Conjunct Mercury, Mercury Sextile Neptune, Mercury Trine Ascendant, Sun Semi Sextile Jupiter, Moon Semi Sextile Pluto, Moon Semi Sextile Midheaven, Mercury Conjunct Mars, Mercury Semi Sextile Pluto, Mercury Semi Sextile Midheaven, Venus Semi Square Jupiter, Venus Sesquiquadrate Uranus, Venus Conjunct Pluto, Venus Conjunct Midheaven, Mars Conjunct Jupiter, Mars Sextile Saturn, Mars Sextile Neptune, Mars Semi Sextile Pluto, Mars Trine Ascendant, Jupiter Sextile Saturn, Jupiter Square Uranus, Saturn Conjunct Neptune, Neptune Semi Sextile Pluto, Neptune Sextile Ascendant, Neptune Semi Sextile Midheaven, Pluto Square Ascendant, Pluto Conjunct Midheaven, Ascendant Square Midheaven

Categories related to Gwendolyn Brooks: 20th-century American women writers, American women poets, 20th-century American poets, United States National Medal of Arts recipients, Writers from Chicago, June 17 births, Kansas, 2000 deaths, African-American women writers, African-American poets, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners, Deaths from cancer in Illinois, American Poets Laureate, Writers from Topeka, Poets Laureate of Illinois, 1917 births, Chicago State University faculty, Northeastern Illinois University faculty

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