Which writer is American, Michel Leiris or Gwendolyn Brooks?
Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
Throughout her prolific writing career, Brooks received many more honors.
 She was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968, a position held until her death, and what is now the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress for the 1985–86 term.
 In 1976, she became the first African-American woman inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Michel Leiris
Julien Michel Leiris (] ; April 20, 1901 in Paris – September 30, 1990 in Saint-Hilaire, Essonne) was a French surrealist writer and ethnographer.
Récit
Récit is a term for a subgenre of the French novel, describing a work in which the narrative calls attention to itself.
 Literary critic Roger Shattuck explains, "During a "récit", we are conscious of being at one remove from the action; the very act of narration interferes and calls attention to itself."
 Examples of the "récit" include works by Benjamin Constant and Eugene Fromentin, André Gide, Maurice Blanchot, and Michel Leiris.
 According to Shattuck,The discomfort of the narrator in confronting his own effort of composition (by now it should be apparent that narrator and author become indistinguishable) has been inherited as one of the principal features of the recit. Portrait of Michel Leiris, 1976
Portrait of Michel Leiris (sometimes Study for Portrait of Michel Leiris) is a 1976 oil on canvas panel painting by the Irish born, English artist Francis Bacon.
 It is the first of second portraits Bacon made of his close friend, the French surrealist writer and anthropologist Michel Leiris; the second followed in 1978. Nora Brooks Blakely
Nora Brooks Blakely (born September 8, 1951) is the President of Brooks Permissions, a permissions firm that manages the use of literary works by Gwendolyn Brooks and other authors. Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy
Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy (known as Brooks) is a public selective enrollment 4-year magnet high school located in the Roseland neighborhood on the far south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
 It is operated by Chicago Public Schools.
 A university-preparatory school, it is named for African-American poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Negrophilia
This interest in exotic cultures had already been established within France due to the regular expositions the country held to showcase the objects and people of the French colonies.
 The fascination with specifically black culture and the "primitivised" existence associated with it flourished in the combined aftermath of the First World War (1914–1918) and the 1931 Colonial Exposition when artists yearned for a simpler, idyllic lifestyle to counter modern life's mechanistic violence.
 Avant-garde artists recognised for their negrophilia interests include poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire, artists Jean Cocteau, Tristan Tzara, Man Ray, Paul Colin, surrealists George Bataille and Michel Leiris, and political activist Nancy Cunard. Eugenia Collier
Eugenia W. Collier (born 1928) is an African-American writer and critic best known for her 1969 short story "Marigolds", which won the Gwendolyn Brooks Prize for Fiction award.
 She was born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Gradhiva
Gradhiva is an anthropological and museological journal, founded in 1986 by the poet and social scientist Michel Leiris and by the anthropologist Jean Jamin.
 It is since 2005 published by the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris. Wall of Respect
The Wall of Respect was a mural first painted in 1967 by the Visual Arts Workshop of the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC).
 The mural represented the contributions of fourteen designers, photographers, painters, and others, notably Chicago muralist William Walker.
 The work comprised a montage of portraits of heroes and heroines of African American history painted on the side of a building at the corner of Chicago's 43rd Street and Langley Avenue, an area called the Black Belt.
 Notable images included Martin Luther King, Jr., Nat Turner, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Gwendolyn Brooks, W.E.B. Dubois, Marcus Garvey, Aretha Franklin, and Harriet Tubman.