Brooks, Gwendolyn
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born on | 17 June 1917 at 13:00 (= 1:00 PM ) | ||||
Place | Topeka, Kansas, 39n03, 95w41 | ||||
Timezone | CST h6w (is standard time) | ||||
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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..
Events
- Work : Prize 1949 (Pulitzer Prize)
- Work : Prize 1989 (Lifetime Achievement Award)
Source Notes
Gauquelin Book of American Charts; some sources give June 7
Categories
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Cancer
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs
- Vocation : Writers : Fiction (More than 20 books)
- Vocation : Writers : Poet
- Notable : Awards : Pulitzer prize (Literature)
- Notable : Awards : Vocational award (Lifetime Achievement Award)
Categories:
- 1917 births
- Birthday 17 June
- Birthplace Topeka, KS (US)
- Sun 25 Gemini
- Moon 5 Gemini
- Asc 3 Libra
- 2000 deaths
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Cancer
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs
- Vocation : Writers : Fiction
- Vocation : Writers : Poet
- Notable : Awards : Pulitzer prize
- Notable : Awards : Vocational award