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.
“This testimony from a black sister marks the beginning of a new
era in the minds and hearts of all black men and women. . . . I
Know Why The Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life
simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a
moving wonder, such a luminous dignity. I have no words for this
achievement, but I know that not since the days of my childhood,
when the people in books were more real than the people one saw
every day, have I found myself so moved. . . . Her portrait is a
biblical study in life in the midst of death.”—James Baldwin
“Simultaneously touching and comic.”—The New York Times
“It is a heroic and beautiful book.”—The Plain Dealer
“Maya Angelou is a natural writer with an inordinate sense of life
and she has written and exceptional autobiographical narrative . .
. a beautiful book—an unconditionally involving memoir for our time
or any time.”—Kirkus Reviews
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