“Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut and “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou, according to PEN America’s ...

Dr Maya Angelou was chosen as an official poet by ... Sullivan writes with a pseudonym - Garson O'Toole - under which he wrote the book Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations.

Oprah Winfrey has recalled how Maya Angelou’s book helped her cope with the sexual ... ageing with such acceptance and assurance,” she wrote. “Several years ago, when I asked her what ...

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

Maya wrote unashamedly about her troubled ... As a young woman she worked as a pimp and a prostitute In her 1974 book, Gather Together In My Name, Angelou wrote about being a pimp and a sex ...

In the song Hey Mama from his hit 2005 album Late Registration, Kanye compares his mum to a book of poetry, referencing writers Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni. And in 2010, he wrote in a blog ...

The list released for the 2023-2024 school year includes titles by American literary icons like Maya Angelou, Flannery O’Connor and Richard Wright, as well as books that have become top targets ...

The writer, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou would have celebrated her ... with near-constant racism and sexism. She spoke and wrote about all of these things frankly, with the goal ...

Author and poet Maya Angelou has died aged 86 ... As well as her autobiographies, she wrote three books of essays, several poetry books, as well as plays, movies and television shows over many ...