About
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet known for works such as Annie Allen and We Real Cool. She earned the title of U.S. Poet Laureate in 1985.
Before Fame
She published her first poem in a children's magazine when she was just thirteen years old.
Trivia
She became the Illinois Poet Laureate in 1968.
Family Life
She was born in Topeka, Kansas, and she later moved to Chicago, Illinois. She had two children with her husband, Henry Lowington Blakely, Jr.
Associated With
She, like Langston Hughes, was a famous African-American poet.
