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Maya Angelou
A writer to know. A book to begin with.
American memoirist, poet, and performer · April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014.
Maya Angelou’s writing joins personal memory to a larger record of Black American life. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings begins her sequence of autobiographies with childhood, silence, and the recovery of a voice. Her poetry offers another entrance: the force of a spoken line, the intimacy of a declaration, and the insistence on dignity.
Books to explore
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings — find on Amazon ↗
- Gather Together in My Name — find on Amazon ↗
- The Heart of a Woman — find on Amazon ↗
- All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes — find on Amazon ↗
- And Still I Rise — find on Amazon ↗
- The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou — find on Amazon ↗
- Mom & Me & Mom — find on Amazon ↗
More books to explore
- Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes — find on Amazon ↗
- A Song Flung Up to Heaven — find on Amazon ↗
- Singin' and Swingin' and Getting Merry like Christmas — find on Amazon ↗
- Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: A Casebook — find on Amazon ↗
- Understanding I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents — find on Amazon ↗
- Kofi and His Magic — find on Amazon ↗
- My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me — find on Amazon ↗
- Life Doesn't Frighten Me — find on Amazon ↗
- Even the Stars Look Lonesome — find on Amazon ↗
- Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now — find on Amazon ↗
- Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer — find on Amazon ↗
- Mother: A Cradle to Hold Me — find on Amazon ↗
- Maya Angelou: Poems — find on Amazon ↗
- Phenomenal Woman — find on Amazon ↗
- A Brave and Startling Truth — find on Amazon ↗
- On the Pulse of Morning — find on Amazon ↗
- I Shall Not Be Moved — find on Amazon ↗
- Now Sheba Sings the Song — find on Amazon ↗
- Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? — find on Amazon ↗
- Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well — find on Amazon ↗
- Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie — find on Amazon ↗
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Sources & further reading: mayaangelou.com ↗mayaangelou.com/biography ↗mayaangelou.com/business-inquiry ↗
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