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Gwendolyn Brooks is a prominent African American poet of the twentieth century, and is known for her indelible impact in African American literature. Brooks was born in 1917 in Topeka, Kansas. Soon after her birth her family moved to Chicago, the city where she was associated with the rest of life. Her family was by no means affluent, but what they lacked in material quantity they made up for with close knittedness. Gwedolyn was impressioned by the warm, interrropersonal relationship between her family members, which can seen echoed in her work. When Gwedolyn was seven she started writing poems, and since she was age eleven she kept