(1917– 2000), US poet and writer. She was the first African-American woman named as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress 1985–86 and the first to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry collected in Annie Allen (1949).
Definition of Brooks, Gwendolyn in US English:
Brooks, Gwendolyn
proper nounbro͝oks
(1917– 2000), US poet and writer. She was the first African-American woman named as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress 1985–86 and the first to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry collected in Annie Allen (1949).