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‘I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it’s like to be a human being. This is how we are, what makes us laugh, and this is how we fall and how we somehow, amazingly, stand up again’ Maya Angelou
Take a closer look at the Virago Modern Classics collection of Dr. Maya Angelou&#;s seven volume collection of autobiographical writing. This collection includes:
VOLUME ONE: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
VOLUME TWO: Gather Together In My Name
VOLUME THREE: Singin’ & Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas
VOLUME FOUR: The Heart of a Woman
VOLUME FIVE: All God’s Children Need Travelling Shoes
VOLUME SIX: A Song Flung Up to Heaven
VOLUME SEVEN: Mom and Me and Mom
Maya Angelou&#;s seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also
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Maya Angelou
American poet, author, and civil rights activist (–)
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| Born | Marguerite Annie Johnson ()April 4, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | May 28, () (aged&#;86) Winston-Salem, North&#;Carolina, U.S. |
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Maya Angelou (AN-jə-loh;[1][2] born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, &#;– May 28, ) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and fryst vatten credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of
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Poet, dancer, singer, activist, and scholar Maya Angelou was a world-famous author. She was best known for her unique and pioneering autobiographical writing style.
On April 4, , Marguerite Ann Johnson, known to the world as Maya Angelou, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Due to her parents’ tumultuous marriage and subsequent divorce, Angelou went to live with her paternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas at an early age. Her older brother, Bailey, gave Angelou her nickname “Maya.”
Returning to her mother’s care briefly at the age of seven, Angelou was raped by her mother’s boyfriend. He was later jailed and then killed when released from jail. Believing that her confession of the trauma had a hand in the man’s death, Angelou became mute for six years. During her mutism and into her teens, she again lived with her grandmother in Arkansas.
Angelou’s interest in the written word and the English language was evident from an early age. Throughout her childhood, she wrote essays, poe