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This is the first full-scale biography of Gwendolyn Brooks, one of America's major poets. George E. Kent, a longtime friend and literary associate of the poet in Chicago, was given exclusive access to Brooks' early notebooks, which she kept from the age of seven. Kent also interviewed Brooks, her mother, and other family members in Chicago and elsewhere. He scoured records and correspondence with her publishers, editors, and agent. He participated in the poet's literary enterprises and in her wide circle of literary and family friends. The study reveals intimate acquaintance with the Harlem Re

American literature --- Brooks, G. --- Brooks, Gwendolyn --- Biography --- Poets [American ] --- 20th century --- African Americans --- Intellectual life --- African American poets --- Poets, American --- Brooks, Gwendolyn, --- Blakely, Gwendolyn Brooks, --- Brooks, Keziah C.

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Ethnicity in literature --- Lee, Chin Yang --- Brooks, Gwendolyn --- Saroyan, William --- Sirk, Douglas --- Ellison, Ralph Waldo

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African Americans in literature --- Women and literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- History --- Brooks, Gwendolyn, --- Blakely, Gwendolyn Brooks, --- Brooks, Keziah C. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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LITERATURE --- RANDALL (DUDLEY) --- MADHUBUTI (HAKI R.) --- SANCHEZ (SONIA) --- CORTEZ (JAYNE) --- BARAKA (AMIRI) --- LEE (DON L.) --- LeROI (JONES) --- BROOKS (GWENDOLYN), 1917-2000 --- U.S. --- INTERVIEW --- INTERVIEW --- INTERVIEW --- INTERVIEW --- INTERVIEW --- LITERATURE --- RANDALL (DUDLEY) --- MADHUBUTI (HAKI R.) --- SANCHEZ (SONIA) --- CORTEZ (JAYNE) --- BARAKA (AMIRI) --- LEE (DON L.) --- LeROI (JONES) --- BROOKS (GWENDOLYN), 1917-2000 --- U.S. --- POETRY --- BLACK --- INTERVIEW --- INTERVIEW --- INTERVIEW --- INTERVIEW --- INTERVIEW

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Faulkner, William --- Wright, Richard --- Ellison, Ralph Waldo --- Baldwin, James --- McKay, Claude --- Hughes, Langston --- Brooks, Gwendolyn --- Baraka, Imamu Amiri --- Ellison, Ralph Waldo --- Mitchell, Loften, 1919 --- -Davis, Ossie, 1917-2005 --- Ward, Douglas Turner, 1930-