Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age-and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. She died in 2014.Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. She had a lifetime appointment as Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University of North Carolina. She wrote three collections of essays many volumes of poetry, including His Day is Done, a tribute to Nelson Mandela and two cookbooks. This was followed by six volumes of autobiography, the seventh and final volume, Mom & Me & Mom, published in 2013.
She first thrilled the world with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). She was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama and was honoured by more than seventy universities throughout the world. She wrote and performed a poem, 'On the Pulse of Morning', for President Clinton on his inauguration. Born 4 April 1928, she lived and chronicled an extraordinary life: rising from poverty, violence and racism, she became a renowned author, memoirist, poet, playwright, civil rights' activist - working with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. Maya Angelou was one of the world's most important writers and activists. 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 'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. She learns the power of the white folks at the other end of town and suffers the terrible trauma of rape by her mother's lover. In this first volume of her six books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty.
Maya Angelou's six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer.
* One of America's most important classics, the first and best loved volume of Maya Angelou's bestselling six-volume autobiography is reissued in a new look to coincide with the publication of Celebrations
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