Her landmark book “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” was among the first 20th-century autobiographies of a Black woman to reach a wide readership.
Her most famous work took its title from “Sympathy,” a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar. And it seems fitting, after Maya Angelou’s death last week at the age of 86, to recall some of what the poet said: ...
Maya Angelou: poet, singer, dancer, painter, Grammy winner — and now, hip-hop artist. The new album Caged Bird Songs takes its title from Angelou's 1969 book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. One of ...
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