A poet, memoirist, activist, and educator, Maya Angelou's life story is evidence of resilience ... Missouri, Angelou's early ...

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings' I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is Maya Angelou's first autobiography, chronicling her life ...

Maya Angelou achieved enough during her extraordinary life to fill seven autobiographies ... was absent during much of her early childhood. But they grew closer as she got older, and when Angelou ...

In “Harlem Hopscotch,” Maya Angelou captures the vibrancy and resilience of life in Harlem, particularly the experience of young African Americans navigating the challenges of poverty and ...

In this sensitively rendered biography of Maya Angelou (1928–2014), the Roops describe how, early in life, “Words whirled and stories spun in Maya’s head and off her lips.” After she ...

From being abandoned by her parents at just four years old to becoming one of the 20th Century’s most iconic figures, Maya Angelou lived an extraordinary life at breakneck speed. Her story is as ...

Maya Angelou, renowned author ... Whether in speeches, interviews, or in her own writing, Dr. Angelou offered some beautiful advice on living life to the fullest. She died in 2014, but her ...

On what would have been the writer and activist’s 90th birthday, we look back at some of her most life-affirming quotes. The writer, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou would have ...

Maya Angelou ... Missouri, Angelou was perhaps best known for her series of autobiographies, of which she wrote seven, including I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. The book details her early ...