Gwendolyn Brooks grew up in a South Side house full of books and was a poet from an early age, eventually becoming the first ...

Poet Gwendolyn Brooks, center, walks unrecognized by people in Chicago in 1961. Brooks lived on the South Side for most of her life. (Chicago Tribune archive) Gwendolyn Brooks writes at a table ...

Orbert Davis, a student at Gwendolyn Brooks college prep, wrote an essay about why he matters. He earned the Imani Scholarship. "I wrote in it how my experiences in learning sustainable design and ...

As soon as the couple asked her to officiate, Flynn knew exactly how she’d start: with Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem “Book Power.” It begins: “Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight ...

May 3—Pattie Gwendolyn O'Rourke Pattie Gwendolyn O'Rourke passed away unexpectedly in Albuquerque, New Mexico on April 16th, 2025 at the age of 89. Pattie was preceded in death by her husband ...

"The place just went to pieces," Matheson recalled of the reaction to Brooks' comment at a "To Be or Not to Be" wrap party.

Gwendolyn Louise "Gwen" Beatley (Simpson), age 76, a beloved mother, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend peacefully parted this world to her forever home on April 16, 2025, in Bloomington, Indiana.

Gwendolyn Burrill Hatfield, of Yorktown, Va. went to be with the Lord on April 16, 2025 after a brief illness. She was a resident of the peninsula for 65 years. Gwen, 86, was born in Shenandoah ...

Brooks & Dunn were recent guests on The Bobby Bones Show, and they recalled the exact moment that they both learned they were millionaires, literally just seconds apart. The interviewer asked ...

She was born November 3, 1935, in Caledonia, Minn., to William and Blanche (Schuldt) Schaller. Gwen was baptized into faith at Peace Church, Crooked Creek Twp., Houston County, Minn., and ...