Brooks, Gwendolyn

Gwendolyn Brooks
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Gwendolyn Brooks

Name	Brooks, Gwendolyn Gender: F
born on	17 June 1917 at 13:00 (= 1:00 PM )
Place	Topeka KS, USA, 39n02, 95w40
Timezone	CST h6w (is standard time)
Data source	Quoted BC/BR Rodden Rating AA Collector: Gauquelin
Astrology data	25°58' 05°23 Asc. 03°52'

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Biography

American writer, the author of more than 20 books and poet laureate of Illinois from 1969. Brooks was a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1949 and in 1989, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Endowment for the arts. Diagnosed with cancer just the week before, Brooks died on 12/03/2000, Chicago, IL at age 83..

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Events

• Work : Prize 1989 (Lifetime Achievement Award)

• Work : Prize 1949 (Pulitzer Prize)

• Death by Disease 3 December 2000 (cancer, age 83)

Source Notes

Gauquelin Book of American Charts; some sources give June 7

Categories

• Vocation : Writers : Poet

• Vocation : Writers : Fiction (More than 20 books)

• Notable : Awards : Pulitzer prize (Literature)

• Notable : Awards : Vocational award (Lifetime Achievement Award)

• Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Cancer

• Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs