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Born in 1917 / Died in 2000 / United States / English

Bibliography

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POETRY

  • A Street in Bronzeville (also see below), Harper (New York, NY), 1945.
  • Annie Allen (also see below), Harper (New York, NY), 1949.
  • The Bean Eaters (also see below), Harper (New York, NY), 1960.
  • In the Time of Detachment, In the Time of Cold, Civil War Centennial Commission of Illinois (Springfield, IL), 1965.
  • In the Mecca (also see below), Harper (New York, NY), 1968.
  • For Illinois 1968: A Sesquicentennial Poem, Harper (New York, NY), 1968.
  • Riot (also see below), Broadside Press (Highland Park, MI), 1969.
  • Family Pictures (also see below), Broadside Press (Highland Park, MI), 1970.
  • Aloneness, Broadside Press (Highland Park, MI), 1971.
  • Aurora, Broadside Press (Highland Park, MI), 1972.
  • Beckonings, Broadside Press (Highland Park, MI), 1975.
  • Primer for Blacks, Black Position Press (Chicago, IL), 1980.
  • To Disembark, Third World Press (Chicago, IL), 1981.
  • Black Love, Brooks Press (Chicago, IL), 1982.
  • Mayor Harold Washington; and, Chicago, the I Will City, Brooks Press (Chicago, IL), 1983.
  • The Near-Johannesburg Boy, and Other Poems, David Co. (Chicago, IL), 1987.
  • Gottschalk and the Grande Tarantelle, David Co. (Chicago, IL), 1988.
  • Winnie, Third World Press (Chicago, IL), 1988.
  • Children Coming Home, David Co. (Chicago, IL), 1991.
  • In Montgomery, and Other Poems,Third World Press (Chicago, IL), 2003.
COLLECTED WORKS
  • Selected Poems, Harper (New York, NY), 1963.
  • (With others) A Portion of That Field: The Centennial of the Burial of Lincoln, University of Illinois Press (Urbana, IL), 1967.
  • The World of Gwendolyn Brooks (contains A Street in Bronzeville, Annie Allen, Maud Martha, The Bean Eaters, and In the Mecca; also see below), Harper (New York, NY), 1971.
  • (Editor) A Broadside Treasury (poems), Broadside Press (Highland Park, MI), 1971.
  • (Editor) Jump Bad: A New Chicago Anthology, Broadside Press (Highland Park, MI), 1971.
  • (With Keorapetse Kgositsile, Haki R. Madhubuti, and Dudley Randall) A Capsule Course in Black Poetry Writing, Broadside Press (Highland Park, MI), 1975.
  • Young Poet's Primer (writing manual), Brooks Press (Chicago, IL), 1981.
  • Very Young Poets (writing manual), Brooks Press (Chicago, IL), 1983.
  • The Day of the Gwendolyn: A Lecture (sound recording), Library of Congress (Washington, DC), 1986.
  • Blacks (includes A Street in Bronzeville, Annie Allen, The Bean Eaters, Maud Martha, A Catch of Shy Fish, Riot, In the Mecca, and most of Family Pictures), David Co. (Chicago, IL), 1987.
  • The Gwendolyn Brooks Library, Moonbeam Publications, 1991.
OTHER
  • Maud Martha (novel; also see below), Harper (New York, NY), 1953.
  • Bronzeville Boys and Girls (poems; for children), Harper (New York, NY), 1956.
  • Report from Part One: An Autobiography, Broadside Press (Highland Park, MI), 1972.
  • The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves: Or You Are What You Are (for children), Third World Press (Chicago, IL), 1974, reissued, 1987.
  • Report from Part Two (autobiography), Third World Press (Chicago, IL), 1996.
Stories included in books, including Soon One Morning: New Writing by American Negroes, 1940-1962 (includes "The Life of Lincoln West"), edited by Herbert Hill, Knopf (New York, NY), 1963, published as Black Voices, Elek (London, England), 1964; and The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers: An Anthology from 1899 to the Present, edited by Langston Hughes, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1967. Contributor to poetry anthologies, including New Negro Poets USA, edited by Langston Hughes, Indiana University Press, 1964; The Poetry of Black America: Anthology of the Twentieth Century, edited by Arnold Doff, Harper, 1973; and Celebrate the Midwest! Poems and Stories for David D. Anderson, edited by Marcia Noe, Lake Shore, 1991. Author of broadsides The Wall and We Real Cool, for Broadside Press, and I See Chicago, 1964. Contributor of poems and articles to Ebony, McCall's, Nation, Poetry, and other periodicals. Contributor of reviews to Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Daily News, New York Herald Tribune, and New York Times Book Review.