Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and The Heart of a Woman, she wrote numerous volumes of poetry, among them Phenomenal Woman, And Still I Rise, On the Pulse of Morning, and Mother. Maya Angelou died in 2014.
"The wisdom, rue and humor of her storytelling are borne
on a lilting rhythm completely her own, the product of a
born writer's senses nourished on black church singing
and preaching, soft mother talk and salty street
talk, and on literature: James Weldon Johnson,
Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Shakespeare and
Gorki." -- The New York Times
Book Review.
"Black, bitter and beautiful, she speaks of our
survival." -- James Baldwin.
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