Works by
Gwendolyn Brooks
(Poet, Writer)
[June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000]

Biography/Memoirs

• Report from Part One: An Autobiography (1972)

Fiction

• Maud Martha (1953)

Non-fiction

•  A Capsule Course in Black Poetry Writing (1975)

• Primer for Blacks (1981) (Prose)

• Young Poet's Primer (1981) (Prose)

• Very Young Poets (1983) (Prose)

Poetry

• The Mother (1945)

• A Street in Bronzeville (1945)

• Annie Allen (1950)

• Bronzeville Boys and Girls (1956)

• The Bean Eaters (1960)

• Selected Poems (1963)

• We Real Cool Broadside (1966)

• In the Mecca (1968)

• Family Pictures (1970)

• Black Steel: Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali (1971)

• The World of Gwendolyn Brooks (1971)

• Aloneness (1971)

• Aurora (1972)

• Beckonings (1975)

• Black Love (1981)

• To Disembark (1981)

• The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems (1986)

• Blacks (1987)

• Winnie (1988)

• Children Coming Home (1991)

• In Montgomery (2000)

See also:

• The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967 (1969), Langston Hughes, ed.
  Includes works by Alice Walker, Frank Yerby, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and others.

• Black Voices (2001), Abraham Chapman, ed.
  Featuring poetry, fiction, autobiography and literary criticism, this is a comprehensive and vital collection featuring the work of the major black voices of a century. An unparalleled important classic anthology with timeless appeal.
  
  Includes works by Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Leroi Jones,  Malcolm X, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, and W. E. B. Du Bois.

• The Voice That Is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century (1970), Hayden Carruth, ed.
  This famous anthology includes the works of more than 130 major American poets of the modern period -- Carl Sandburg, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Goodman, and Robert Frost, among them--along with short biographies of each.