EPISODE · Aug 12, 2025 · 8 MIN
Episode 135: Gwendolyn Brooks: "Home"
from A Literary Cornucopia · host Luisa Morales-Molina
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) was an influential 20th-century poet and the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1950. Her short story "Home," later incorporated into her novel Maud Martha, centers around a family's anxiety and eventual relief as they await the outcome of a bank loan application.
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