Brooks' feature articles, poetry, and photography have appeared in magazines, newspapers, books and other publications both in the U.S. Her first novel, Lust for Danger, won Honorable Mention in the Jada Press Book of the Year Awards for Brooks, as well as a spot in the 'Next Big Thing' tent at the Baltimore Book Festival in Baltimore, Maryland. Brooks is an award-winning novelist and photographer, author of nine books, and Co-Administrator of Indies Unlimited. All three had joined together in one common goal: to create the worst book possible. Brooks, Stephen Hise, and JD Mader all met unsuspectingly through online writers' groups. Never before has a spoof conquered so much with so little. Join Case on his epic travels through multiple literary genres as he ruins horror, space-adventure, noir detective, spy-thriller, westerns, classics of literature, pop culture icons and more with his own unique panache. Women want to smack him – men want to smack him, too, just harder. He is a man among men and therefore only one name is sufficient. She lived in Chicago until her death on December 3, 2000.The name’s Case.

She also received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, the Frost Medal, a National Endowment for the Arts Award, the Shelley Memorial Award, and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 1985, she was the first black woman appointed as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress, a post now known as Poet Laureate. In 1968 she was named poet laureate for the state of Illinois. She also wrote numerous other books including a novel, Maud Martha (Harper, 1953), and Report from Part One: An Autobiography (Broadside Press, 1972), and edited Jump Bad: A New Chicago Anthology (Broadside Press, 1971). She was the author of more than twenty books of poetry, including Children Coming Home (The David Co., 1991) Blacks (The David Co., 1987) To Disembark (Third World Press, 1981) The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems (The David Co., 1986) Riot (Broadside Press, 1969) In the Mecca (Harper & Row, 1968) The Bean Eaters (Harper, 1960) Annie Allen (Harper, 1949), for which she received the Pulitzer Prize and A Street in Bronzeville (Harper & Brothers, 1945). Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas, on June 7, 1917, and raised in Chicago.

Bad Book by K.S. Brooks