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(1917- 2000) Gwendolyn Brooks achieved astonishing success at an early age. She was born in Topeka, Kansas in the year 1917. It has been said that Gwendolyn Brooks was intrigued by words and their sounds they made. By the age of seven, she dreamt of becoming a writer. At the age of thirteen, Gwendolyn Brooks had a poem published in American Childhood, a well-known magazine at the time. While a student at Wilson Junior College, Gwendolyn Brooks was given the opportunity to meet James Weldon Johnson and Langston Hughes. These two