The Gwendolyn Brooks Page

( b. 1917 )

Major Works
A Street in Bronzeville ( 1945 ).
Annie Allen ( 1949 ).
Maud Martha ( 1953 ). A novel.
Bronzeville Boys and Girls ( 1956 ).
The Bean Eaters ( 1961 ).
In the Mecca ( 1968 ).
Riot ( 1969 ).
Family Pictures ( 1970 ).
Aloneness ( 1971 ).
Black Position, No. 1 ( 1971 ).
The World of Gwendolyn Brooks ( 1971 ). An omnibus collection, including Maud Martha.
Black Position, No. 2 ( 1972 ).
Report from Part One ( 1972 ). Autobiography, first part.
The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves; or, What You Are You Are ( 1974 ).
Beckonings ( 1975 ).
Capsule Course in Black Poetry Writing ( 1975 ).
Young Poet's Primer ( 1980 ).
to disembark ( 1981 ).
Black Love ( 1982 ).
The Near Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems ( 1986 ). Gottschalk and the Grande Tarantelle ( 1988 ).
Primer for Blacks ( 1991 ).
Winnie ( 1991 ). About Winnie Mandela.
Blacks ( 1991 ).
Coming Home ( 1992 ).
Selected Poems ( 1995 ). From some of her earliest collections and New Poems.
Report from Part Two ( 1996 ). Autobiography, part two.

About Gwendolyn Brooks
George E. Kent, A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. Kentucky, 1990.
Gwendolyn Brooks from Modern American Poetry.
A Gwendolyn Brooks Page Includes texts of several poems.
Gwendolyn Brooks from Voices from the Gaps.

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