[DOC] [TLE] Gwendolyn Brooks - Poet - Biography.com [PAR] Apr 2, 2014 ... Gwendolyn Brooks was a postwar poet best known as the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, for her 1949 book Annie Allen. [DOC] [TLE] Gwendolyn Brooks - Wikipedia [PAR] Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917  December 3, 2000) was an 
American poet, author, and teacher. She was the recipient of many awards for 
her work and influence; including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950, making 
her the first African American ... She was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 
1968, a position held until her... [DOC] [TLE] Gwendolyn Brooks; Won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950 - latimes [PAR] Dec 4, 2000 ... Gwendolyn Brooks, who won a Pulitzer Prize for writing candid and ... poetry that 
delved into poverty, racism and drugs among black people, died Sunday. ... She 
began her writing career at 11 when she mailed several poems to a ... white, 
Hispanic, Native American," said longtime friend, poet and literature... [DOC] [TLE] Gwendolyn Brooks | Poetry Foundation [PAR] She also was poetry consultant to the Library of Congressthe first black woman 
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1930. A few ... From this group she received further encouragement, and by 1943 
she had won the Midwestern Writers Conference Poetry Award. In 1945 her ... In 
1950 Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize
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with the distinction of being the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize. ... In 
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Awards and in 1995 she became the first science fiction writer to win the 
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Her verse narrative Annie Allen (1949) won the first Pulitzer Prize awarded to ... 
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Pulitzer Prize in 1950. ... The first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, 
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Question: She was the first African-American author to win a Pulitzer Prize; she won in 1950 for her poetry
Answer: Gwendolyn Brooks