“I was 15, I was 15 years old when I read my first diverse book, Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings and the whole world fell away from me.” Related: Oprah Calls Salary for Original ...

Angelou died on 28 May 2014 ... epic autobiography that would eventually run to six volumes. The book begins when the young Maya is sent to live with her grandparents in Arkansas in the wake ...