Maya Angelou, author portrait
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Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and The Heart of a Woman, she wrote numerous volumes of poetry, among them Phenomenal Woman, And Still I Rise, On the Pulse of Morning, and Mother. Maya Angelou died in 2014.
Maya Angelou: A Writer's Journal
The Complete Poetry
Rainbow in the Cloud
Mom & Me & Mom
Letter to My Daughter
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Heart of a Woman
Gather Together in My Name
Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
The Heart of a Woman
The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
A Song Flung Up to Heaven
Poems
I Shall Not Be Moved
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

Books

Maya Angelou: A Writer's Journal
The Complete Poetry
Rainbow in the Cloud
Mom & Me & Mom
Letter to My Daughter
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Heart of a Woman
Gather Together in My Name
Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
The Heart of a Woman
The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
A Song Flung Up to Heaven
Poems
I Shall Not Be Moved
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

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