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New Book about African-American Literary Icon Gwendolyn Brooks

September 3, 2012   // 0 Comments

Religious Allusion in the Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks by New Jersey English Professor and Author Margot Harper Banks is a fascinating new book about literary genius Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950. The book has well-researched biblical commentary, meticulous literary analysis and a chapter-length biography complemented by an interview wi...

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