Report From Part Two

Chicago, Illinois: Third World Press, 1996. CI2 - A first printing hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has scattered rubbing and scratches, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Afterword by D.H. Melhem. 8.75"x5.75", 170 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black to win a Pulitzer Prize of any kind (1950), was born in Topeka, Kansas, June 7, 1917, and has lived in Chicago, Illinois since she was a few weeks old. She is a graduate of Chicago's WIlson Junior College, and has been awarded over seventy honorary degrees. She has taught at the University of Wisconsis (Madison), City College of New York, Columbia College of Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University, Elmhurst College, Chicago State University, Since 1968 she has been Poet Laureate of Illinois, succeeding the first Poet Laureate, Carl Sandburg. in 1988 she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. She haws published many books, including poetry for adults and children, one novel, writing manuals, an autobiography. In 1985 she became the 29th and final appointment as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Among her awards are: the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Ainsfield-Wolf Award, the Kuumba Liberation Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America, a National Book Award nomination for "In the Mecca," the National Endowment for The Arts Lifetime Achievement Award, University of Thessaloniki, Athens, Greece (1990). She is a Jefferson Lecturer, 1994, and National Book Awards Medalist For American Letters, 1994. She is also winner of The Sewanee Review's Aiken-Taylor Award, the sixth receipient. October 5, 1995: the National Medal of Arts (at the White House). In Illinois, she has enjoyed many special honors: in Harvey, there is the Gwendolyn Brooks Junior High School; on the campus of Western Illinois University in Macomb there is the Gwendolyn Brooks Cultural Center; in Chicago's Cabrini Green community, the Edaward Jenner School auditorium has been named after her; and her name has been engraved on the Illinois State Library in Springfield. She is the daughter of the late David and Keziah (Wims) Brooks. She is married to Henry Blakely, author of "Windy Place," and is the mother of Nora Brooks Blakely, founder and director of Chocolate Chips Theatre Company in Chicago, and Henry Blakely, Jr., a California software designer.. First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.