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Home by Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks is best known for her poetry, but she also wrote a novel, Maud Martha. Her frequently anthologised short story, Home, is actually chapter 8 of this novel. It tells the story of a poor family that is worried about losing not only their house, but what the house represents.

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Gwendolyn Brooks Biography

Poet Gwendolyn Brooks moved to Chicago at a young age. She began writing and publishing as a teenager, eventually achieving national fame for her 1945 collection A Street in Bronzeville. In 1950 Brooks became the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, for her book Annie Allen. She died in her Chicago home on December 3, 2000.

SOURCE: Famous Biographies (2020), posted on YouTube, Duration: 4:15 mins, URL: https://youtu.be/wxVnB7iyWbg