Conversations With Gwendolyn Brooks

by Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (Editor)

Book by Brooks, Gwendolyn

192 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2003

About the author

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Annie Allen and one of the most celebrated Black poets. She also served as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress—the first Black woman to hold that position. She was the poet laureate for the state of Illinois for over thirty years, a National Women’s Hall of Fame inductee, and the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her works include We Are Shining, Bronzeville Boys and Girls, A Street in Bronzeville, In the Mecca, The Bean Eaters, and Maud Martha.

Reviews

[Joe Drogos · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you like Gwendolyn Brooks, you'll find this interesting. It's not hard to read- they're interviews from throughout her career: from Studs Terkel in 1961 up to 1994.

This has to be said, too, even though it's not really relevant: This book has more typos than any book I can remember reading.

[Beth]

joyful reading
wished yesterday i had a longer commute (first time ever)