Her writing included sonnets, ballads, and content about Chicago. She continued her writing path and by age 16 she had published 75 poems! She would submit her work to an African-American newspaper in Chicago (Gwendolyn Brooks). Brooks had already began to publish her work when she graduated from Wilson Junior College in 1936 (Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks).īrooks’ first poem was published in a children’s magazine when she was 13. These trials and struggles she faced in high school would influence her writing. Throughout Brooks’ experiences at all these high schools, she encountered “racial prejudice”. Brooks’ last high school was also integrated and it was Englewood High School. Then, she attended an all-black school, Wendell Phillips Academy High School. The first one she attended was Hyde Park High School which was integrated.
As a teen she attended three high schools.
A nickname friends and family called her was “Gwendie”. As a part of the Great Migration, Gwendolyn moved to Chicago when she was only six weeks old.
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas on J(Gwendolyn Brooks).
