I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings: The internationally bestselling classic (The international classic) - Softcover

Angelou, Dr Maya

 
9780860685111: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings: The internationally bestselling classic (The international classic)
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ISBN 10: 086068511X ISBN 13: 9780860685111
Verlag: Virago, 1984

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One of America's most important classics, the first and best loved volume of Maya Angelou's bestselling seven-volume autobiography

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Maya Angelou was one of the world's most important writers and activists. Born 4 April 1928, she lived and chronicled an extraordinary life: rising from poverty, violence and racism, she became a renowned author, memoirist, poet, playwright, civil rights' activist - working with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. She wrote and performed a poem, 'On the Pulse of Morning', for President Clinton on his inauguration. She was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama and was honoured by more than seventy universities throughout the world.

She first thrilled the world with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). This was followed by six volumes of autobiography, the seventh and final volume, Mom & Me & Mom, published in 2013. She wrote three collections of essays; many volumes of poetry, including His Day is Done, a tribute to Nelson Mandela; and two cookbooks. She had a lifetime appointment as Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University of North Carolina. She died in 2014.

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Maya Angelou's debut memoir has become an classic beloved worldwide. Her six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the her talents and resilience.. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In this first volume of her six books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s. She learns the power of the white fo

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Verlag
Virago
Erscheinungsdatum
1984
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
086068511X
ISBN 13 
9780860685111
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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