Anatomy of a Pulitzer Prize letter: a close look at the letter recommending Gwendolyn Brooks as the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1950 reveals more than just the reigning aesthetics of that period

When Gwendolyn Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in May 1950 for her second volume, Annie Allen, she was a thirty-two-year-old mother and wife living in Chicago. The lights [...]