Here i have attached some readings if you would like to further your knowledge of Gwendolyn Brooks and her work or with some more black American literature
· Bigsby, C. W. E., The Second Black Renaissance: Essays in Black Literature, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1980.
· Black Literature Criticism, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1992.
· Burt, Stephen, and David Mikics. The Art of the Sonnet. Cambridge, MA: Belknap of Harvard UP, 2010. Print.
· Dictionary of Literary Biography, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 5: American Poets since World War II, 1980, Volume 76: Afro-American Writers, 1940-1955, 1988, Volume 165: American Poets since World War II, Fourth Series, 1996.
· Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., editor, Black Literature and Literary Theory, Methuen (New York, NY), 1984.
· "Gwendolyn Brooks' Life and Career." Gwendolyn Brooks' Life and Career. N.p., n.d. Web.
· Kent, George E. A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, 1990. Print.
· Melhem, D. H., Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry and the Heroic Voice, University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY), 1987.
· Shaw, Harry B., Gwendolyn Brooks, Twayne (New York, NY), 1980.
· The World of Gwendolyn Brooks (contains A Street in Bronzeville, Annie Allen, Maud Martha, The Bean Eaters, and In the Mecca; also see below), Harper (New York, NY), 1971.
· Black Literature Criticism, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1992.
· Burt, Stephen, and David Mikics. The Art of the Sonnet. Cambridge, MA: Belknap of Harvard UP, 2010. Print.
· Dictionary of Literary Biography, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 5: American Poets since World War II, 1980, Volume 76: Afro-American Writers, 1940-1955, 1988, Volume 165: American Poets since World War II, Fourth Series, 1996.
· Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., editor, Black Literature and Literary Theory, Methuen (New York, NY), 1984.
· "Gwendolyn Brooks' Life and Career." Gwendolyn Brooks' Life and Career. N.p., n.d. Web.
· Kent, George E. A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, 1990. Print.
· Melhem, D. H., Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry and the Heroic Voice, University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY), 1987.
· Shaw, Harry B., Gwendolyn Brooks, Twayne (New York, NY), 1980.
· The World of Gwendolyn Brooks (contains A Street in Bronzeville, Annie Allen, Maud Martha, The Bean Eaters, and In the Mecca; also see below), Harper (New York, NY), 1971.