Gwendolyn Brooks

Standard Name: Brooks, Gwendolyn

Connections

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Intertextuality and Influence Helen Oyeyemi
This is HO 's haunted house novel; she reports having been inspired by Shirley Jackson 's The Haunting of Hill House.
Harrison, Niall. “Throwing Voices And Observing Transformations: An Interview With Helen Oyeyemi”. Strange Horizons, 2013.
The novel, which opens with an epigraph from African-American poet Gwendolyn Brooks
Literary responses Grace Nichols
GN 's publishers quote glowing opinions about her work. Gwendolyn Brooks has praised her rich music, an easy lyricism . . . also grit, and earthy honesty, a willingness to be vulnerable and clean,Jeanette Winterson
Occupation Alice Walker
She supplemented her Radcliffe Institute writing fellowship (worth $5,000, awarded for a year and extended for a second year) by teaching at Wellesley College .
White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004.
218, 222, 225
There her course on black women writers...
Reception Alice Walker
Critic Barbara Smith , who read the book in galley proof, foresaw that it would rock the publishing world. Incest? Lesbianism? Letters to God? In black English? It was from another planet. Without question, it...

Timeline

1950: Gwendolyn Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize (the...

Writing climate item

1950

Gwendolyn Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize (the first African American to do so) for her poetry volume Annie Allen. Annie lives, like the poet, on Chicago's South Side (Bronzeville).
Watkins, Mel. “Gwendolyn Brooks, 83, Passionate Poet, Dies”. New York Times, 5 Dec. 2000.

September 1957: Desegregation of education in the American...

National or international item

September 1957

Desegregation of education in the American South met with resistance: the Governor of Arkansas closed the Little Rock public schools and opened them as private, segregated ones in defiance of Federal policy.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
256
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
II: 241
Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking, 1999.
189-91

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