“Sadie and Maud” was written by Gwendolyn Brooks. Gwendolyn was a poet who also published books for children, a novel, and two volumes of her memoirs. Sadie and Maud were sisters with the same parents, and grew up in the same home. Even though they shared some common things as children, later down the road life took its own toll on the both of them when it came to their education, lifestyle, and their outcome. Sadie was better known as the wild child. She attended high school, but there was no further education after that. Sadie was more like the party girl who went against her parents. She had two daughters out of wedlock which made her family very shameful. Sadie never really had money, but she had her fine tooth comb. She raised her daughters