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1950, Pulitzer Prize in Poetry [2] Gwendolyn Brooks in 1950 became the first African-American to be given a Pulitzer Prize. It was awarded for the volume, Annie Allen , which chronicled in verse the life of an ordinary black girl growing up in the Bronzeville neighborhood on Chicago's South Side.
Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead [1] (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist.He is the author of nine novels, including his 1999 debut The Intuitionist; The Underground Railroad (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; and The Nickel Boys, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020, making him one of only ...
The Nickel Boys won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. [5] Judges of the prize called the novel "a spare and devastating exploration of abuse at a reform school in Jim Crow -era Florida that is ultimately a powerful tale of human perseverance, dignity and redemption."
The "Nickel Boys" film was adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about Black teens at a corrupt reform school. 'Nickel Boys' book vs. movie: What's changed in the ...
RaMell Ross landed an Oscar nomination with his first feature, and this soul-stirring drama, based on Colson Whitehead's book, is poised to earn him his second.
Annie Allen is a book of poetry by American author Gwendolyn Brooks that was published by Harper & Brothers in 1949. The book tells in poetry about the life of Annie Allen, an African-American girl growing to adulthood. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950 [1] and made Brooks the first African American to ever receive a Pulitzer ...
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Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio, to Ray Dove, one of the first African-American chemists to work in the U.S. tire industry (as a research chemist at Goodyear), and Elvira Hord, who achieved honors in high school and would share her passion for reading with her daughter.