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Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) was an American poet and the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, for Annie Allen (1950). She was named Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (now known as U.S. Poet Laureate) in 1985.
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