I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings' I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is Maya Angelou's first autobiography, chronicling her life ...

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

American icon Maya Angelou was a celebrated writer ... records show that he watched the film version of Angelou’s autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings while in jail.

In this sensitively rendered biography of Maya Angelou (1928–2014), the Roops ... loans the child some books and invites her to read them aloud, an act that offers Angelou “the key to unlock ...

On what would have been the writer and activist’s 90th birthday, we look back at some of her most life-affirming quotes. The writer, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou would have ...

The US Treasury has minted coins featuring poet Maya ... Monday. Angelou - an author and social activist - died in 2014 at the age of 86. She shot to fame with her ground-breaking autobiography ...

LOUIS — A St. Louis legend has been recognized as one of the most iconic female pioneers in history. According to a recent survey, Maya Angelou, known for her roles as a writer, poet, actor, musician, ...