Gwendolyn Brooks

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BOOKS

• Berry, S. L., Gwendolyn Brooks, Creative Education (Mankato, MN), 1993.
• Bigsby, C. W. E., The Second Black Renaissance: Essays in Black Literature, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1980.
• Black Literature Criticism, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1992.
• Children's Literature Review, Volume 27, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1992.
• Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography: The New Consciousness, 1941-1968, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1985.
• Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 1, 1973, Volume 2, 1974, Volume 4, 1975, Volume 5, 1976, Volume 15, 1980, Volume 49, 1988.
• Dictionary of Literary Biography, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 5: American Poets since World War II, 1980, Volume 76: Afro-American Writers, 1940-1955, 1988, Volume 165: American Poets since World War II, Fourth Series, 1996.
• Evans, Mari, editor, Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation, Anchor/Doubleday (New York, NY), 1984.
• Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., editor, Black Literature and Literary Theory, Methuen (New York, NY), 1984.
• Gayles, Gloria Wade, editor, Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks, University Press of Mississippi (Jackson, MS), 2003.
• Gibson, Donald B., editor, Modern Black Poets: A Collection of Critical Essays, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1973.
• Gould, Jean, Modern American Women Poets, Dodd, Mead (New York, NY), 1985.
• Kent, George, Gwendolyn Brooks: A Life, University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY), 1990.
• Kufrin, Joan, Uncommon Women, New Century Publications, 1981.
• Littlejohn, David, Black on White: A Critical Survey of Writing by American Negroes, Grossman (New York, NY), 1966.
• Madhubuti, Haki R., Say That the River Turns: The Impact of Gwendolyn Brooks, Third World Press (Chicago, IL), 1987.
• Melhem, D. H., Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry and the Heroic Voice, University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY), 1987.
• Melhem, D. H., Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions and Interviews, University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY), 1990.
• Miller, R. Baxter, Black American Poets between Worlds, 1940-1960, University of Tennessee Press (Knoxville, TN), 1986.
• Mootry, Maria K., and Gary Smith, editors, A Life Distilled: Gwendolyn Brooks, Her Poetry and Fiction, University of Illinois Press (Urbana, IL), 1987.
• Poetry Criticism, Volume 7, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1994.
• Shaw, Harry B., Gwendolyn Brooks, Twayne (New York, NY), 1980.
• World Literature Criticism, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1992.
• Wright, Stephen Caldwell, editor, On Gwendolyn Brooks: Reliant Contemplation, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1996.

PERIODICALS

• African American Review, summer, 1992, pp. 197-211.
• American Literature, December, 1990, pp. 606-616.
• Atlantic Monthly, September, 1960.
• Best Sellers, April 1, 1973.
• Black American Literature Forum, spring, 1977; winter, 1984; fall, 1990, p. 567.
• Black Enterprise, June, 1985.
• Black Scholar, March, 1981; November, 1984.
• Black World, August, 1970; January, 1971; July, 1971; September, 1971; October, 1971; January, 1972; March, 1973; June, 1973; December, 1975.
• Book Week, October 27, 1963.
• Book World, November 3, 1968.
• Chicago Tribune, January 14, 1986; June 7, 1987; June 12, 1989.
• Christian Science Monitor, September 19, 1968.
• CLA Journal, December, 1962; December, 1963; December, 1969; September, 1972; September, 1973; September, 1977; December, 1982.
• Contemporary Literature, March 28, 1969; winter, 1970.
• Critique, summer, 1984.
• Discourse, spring, 1967.
• Ebony, July, 1968; June, 1987, p. 154.
• English Journal, November, 1990, pp. 84-88.
• Essence, April, 1971; September, 1984.
• Explicator, April, 1976; Volume 36, number 4, 1978.
• Houston Post, February 11, 1974.
• Jet, May 30, 1994, p. 37.
• Journal of Negro Education, winter, 1970.
• Kenyon Review, winter, 1995, p. 136.
• Library Journal, September 15, 1970.
• Los Angeles Times, November 6, 1987; September 14, 1993, p. F3; April 21, 1997.
• Los Angeles Times Book Review, September 2, 1984.
• Modern Fiction Studies, winter, 1985.
• Nation, September, 1962; July 7, 1969; September 26, 1987, p. 308.
• National Observer, November 9, 1968.
• Negro American Literature Forum, fall, 1967; summer, 1974.
• Negro Digest, December, 1961; January, 1962; August, 1962; July, 1963; June, 1964; January, 1968.
• New Statesman, May 3, 1985.
• New Yorker, September 22, 1945; December 17, 1949; October 10, 1953; December 3, 1979.
• New York Times, October 5, 1953; December 9, 1956; October 6, 1963; March 2, 1969; April 30, 1990, p. C11.
• New York Times Book Review, November 4, 1945; October 23, 1960; October 6, 1963; March 2, 1969; January 2, 1972; June 4, 1972; December 3, 1972; January 7, 1973; June 10, 1973; December 2, 1973; September 23, 1984; July 5, 1987; March 18, 1990, p. 21.
• Phylon, summer, 1961; March, 1976.
• Poetry, December, 1945; Volume 126, 1950; March, 1964.
• Publishers Weekly, June 6, 1970.
• Ramparts, December, 1968.
• Saturday Review, February 1, 1964.
• Saturday Review of Literature, January 19, 1946; September 17, 1949; May 20, 1950.
• Southern Review, spring, 1965.
• Southwest Review, winter, 1989, pp. 25-35.
• Studies in Black Literature, autumn, 1973; spring, 1974; summer, 1974; spring, 1977.
• Tribune Books (Chicago, IL), July 12, 1987.
• Virginia Quarterly Review, winter, 1969; winter, 1971.
• Voices, winter, 1950, pp. 54-56.
• Washington Post, May 19, 1971; April 19, 1973; March 31, 1987.
• Washington Post Book World, November 11, 1973; May 4, 1994, p. C1.
• Women's Review of Books, December, 1984.
• World Literature Today, winter, 1985.

OBITUARIES: PERIODICALS

• Chicago Tribune, December 10, 2000, section 4, p. 10.
• Los Angeles Times, December 4, 2000, p. B4.
• New York Times, December 5, 2000, p. C22.
• Times (London, England), December 21, 2000.
• Washington Post, December 5, 2000, p. B7.*