Brooks was an award-winning poet whose poems, written in a variety of forms, deal with the experience of being black and often of being female in America. Her 1949 book of poetry, Annie Allen, received a Pulitzer Prize, the first ever awarded to an African American. In 1994, she was named the National Endowment for the Humanities's Jefferson Lecturer, one of the highest honors in the American literary world. How old was Brooks when her first poem was published?
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Brooks was an award-winning poet whose poems, written in a variety of forms, deal with the experience of being black and often of being female in America. Her 1949 book of poetry, Annie Allen, received a Pulitzer Prize, the first ever awarded to an African American. In 1994, she was named the National Endowment for the Humanities's Jefferson Lecturer, one of the highest honors in the American literary world. How old was Brooks when her first poem was published?
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