格温多林·布鲁克斯

Gwendolyn Brooks

1917年6月7日,格温多林·布鲁克斯出生于堪萨斯州的托皮卡。在她六个星期大的时候,全家搬到了芝加哥。布鲁克斯上过三个中学:久负盛名的海德公园综合中学、全部是黑人学生的温得尔·菲利普斯专科学校和综性的恩格伍德中学。在某些机构里遭受的种族偏见塑造了她对美国社会动力学的理解,也影响了她的写作。1936年,从威尔逊初级学院毕业的布鲁克斯已经开始写作和发表作品。

Gwendolyn Brooks was born on June 7, 1917, in Topeka, Kansas. When Brooks was six weeks old, her family moved to Chicago. Brooks attended three high schools: the famous, integrated1 Hyde Park High School;the all black Wendell Phillips Academy High School;and the integrated Englewood High School. The racial2 prejudice3 that she encountered at some of these institutions would shape her understanding of social dynamics4 in the United States and influence her writing. In 1936, Brooks graduated from Wilson Junior College, having already begun to write and publish her work. Brooks began writing at an early age. She published her first poem in a children’s magazine at age 13. By 16, she had published about 75 poems.