Gwendolyn Brooks was the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize, receiving the award for poetry in 1950. She wrote poems about real life--love, loneliness, family, and poverty--showing readers how just about anything could become a beautiful poem.
juvenile
by Suzanne Slade ; illustrated by Cozbi A. Cabrera.
Includes bibliography.
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