Gwendolyn Brooks Poet

• Gender: Female
• Citizenship: United States
• Born: Jun 7, 1917
• Died: Dec 3, 2000

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an African-American poet. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950 and was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968 and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985.