Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
(June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000)

The first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry,
Brooks used her work to explore the urban African American
experience.

        
Camille Bohannon
      

Dolly Rebecca Parton is a singer, songwriter, actress, and
philanthropist, known primarily for her decades-long career
in country music. After achieving success as a songwriter
for others, Parton made her album debut in 1967 with Hello,
I’m Dolly. Dolly is 79 years young today.

Katharine Lee Bates (1859 – 1929) a poet and professor at
Wellesley College, is best known as the author of "America
the Beautiful," which she wrote after a trip to the summer
of Pike’s Peak in 1893.

Poetry great Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco, California.

ROSS SIMPSON