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Nora Brooks Blakely (born September 8, 1951) is a literary editor and agent. She is the president of Brooks Permissions, a permissions firm that manages the use of literary works by Gwendolyn Brooks and other authors.

She has made public appearances and appeared in documentaries related to Chicago's literary scene, especially the Black Arts movement which grew out of Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood.

Personal life

She is the daughter of poet Gwendolyn Brooks and her husband, Henry Lowington Blakely Jr., who was known as "the Poet of 63rd Street".

References

1. Rhynes, Martha E. (2003). Gwendolyn Brooks : poet from Chicago (1st ed.). Greensboro, N.C.: Morgan Reynolds Pub. p. 50. ISBN 9781931798051.
2. "Brooks Permissions". Brooks Permissions. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
3. ^ "LIT 50 2017". Newcity Lit. 25 May 2017.
4. "Nora Brooks Blakely". IMDb.
5. Schoenberg, Nara. "100 to perform for 100th anniversary of Gwendolyn Brooks' birth".
6. "Third World Press Foundation Celebrates 50 Years of Continuous Publishing". 27 September 2017.
7. "Henry Blakely, 79, `Poet Of 63d Street'". Archived from the original on March 20, 2016.

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