Gwendolyn Brooks

Scope|Circulating Books|Critical Sources|Web Sites

Scope:  Gwendolyn Brooks is an American poet who received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1946.  She had a successful career as a teacher at many colleges and universities. Her poetry captures the essence of the urban struggle of the poor. Brooks was an advocate for freedom and equality for blacks and women.

CIRCULATING BOOKS Books of Gwendolyn Brooks works are listed in our on-line catalog under Brooks, Gwendolyn, and under individual titles, i.e. Aloneness Books written by and about Gwendolyn Brooks have the call number(s) PS 3503.R7244 Z74 Some representative books from the circulating collection that are located upstairs in the library are: Kent, George E. A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1990. Mootry, Maria K. and Gary Smith. A Life Distilled: Gwendolyn Brooks, Her Poetry and Fiction. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

CRITICAL SOURCES

There are books in the Reference Collection that do not circulate, but pages may be photocopied.The following titles are appropriate to this topic:

REF PS 153.N5.W47 1989 Black American Women Novelists

REF PS 303.C64 1993 The Columbia History of American Poetry

REF PR 502.C85 1992 Critical Survey of Poetry

REF PS 21.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography

WEB SITES

Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu

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Updated 08/16/2007