Gwendolyn Brooks

African american writer.

Born June 7th, 1917 in Topeka. [ref]

Died December 3rd, 2000 at 83 years old in Chicago (cancer). [ref]

Occupations
novelist, poet, teacher, writer
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You’ll drift apart, it’s true, but you’ll be out in the open, part of everything alive again. Philip Pullman