NMLP P-044557 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Maud Martha

Gwendolyn Brooks · Harper & Brothers (New York) · 1953

US-only true first: Harper & Brothers (New York), 1953 — Gwendolyn Brooks's only novel. There was no contemporaneous UK edition and no competing first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044557 for "Maud Martha" by Gwendolyn Brooks (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044557, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).