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Gwendolyn Brooks was Born
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Gwendolyn Brooks began writing
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Langston Hughes and James Weldon told Gwendolyn Brooks to pursue writing
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Gwendolyn Brooks graduated from Englewood High School
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Gwendolyn Brooks graduated from Wilson Junior College
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Gwendolyn Brooks got married to Henry Lowington Blakely Jr.
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Gwendolyn Brooks had her first son
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Gwendolyn Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize
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Gwendolyn Brooks had her first daughter
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Named the Poet Laureate of Illinois
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Appointed as a Consultant in Library of Congress
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Inducted into Woman's Hall of Fame
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Honored with Senior Fellowship in Literature by the National Endowment for the Arts
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Medal for Distinguished Contributions to American Letters by the National Book Foundation
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Jefferson Lecturer from the National Endowment for the Humanities Lifetime Achievement Award
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National Medal of Art
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Lincoln Laureate Award
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International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent
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Gwendolyn Brooks died
