About Nora Brooks Blakely
Born 1951. Nora Brooks Blakely is a businessperson.
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".
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American literary editor
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Nora Brooks Blakely was born on 8 September 1951.
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Nora Brooks Blakely is a businessperson.
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