For ten points, name this author of Maud Martha that wrote about figures that "thin gin," strike straight," "Jazz June" and "Die Soon," in her poem We Real Cool.
This author wrote about a woman being described as crazy because she waited until November instead of May to sing a song. In another poem, she wrote "I hold my honey and I store my bread," in "my dreams, my works, must wait til after hell." In addition to writing "The sun is a lode," in "The Anniad," the title figure of her novel reads Of Human Bondage with her husband Paul Philips and is the daughter of Belva Brown. This author that set a lot of her works in Bronzeville, wrote the poetry collection In the Mecca, but is best known for a poem in The Bean Eaters. For ten points, name this author of Maud Martha that wrote about figures that "thin gin," strike straight," "Jazz June" and "Die Soon," in her poem We Real Cool.
This author wrote about a woman being described as crazy because she waited until November instead of May to sing a song.
Gwendolyn {Brooks}