My Journey with Maya

Smiley, Tavis with David Ritz

ISBN 10: 0316341754 / ISBN 13: 9780316341752

Published by Little, Brown & Co., New York, 2015

About this Item

8vo, 214 pp., Remainder dot lower edge.

Seller Inventory # 087292

Bibliographic Details

• Title: My Journey with Maya
• Publisher: Little, Brown & Co., New York
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316341754
• ISBN 13: 9780316341752
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • African American

About this title

Synopsis

Tavis Smiley and Maya Angelou met in 1986, when he was twenty-one and she was fifty-eight. For the next twenty-eight years, Angelou was a teacher and a maternal figure to Smiley, and they talked often of art, politics, history, music, religion, and race. In My Journey with Maya, Smiley beautifully recounts a friendship filled with conversation that began when he, a recent college graduate and a poor kid from a big family in the Midwest, accompanied the revered writer on a sojourn to Ghana.

Smiley stumbled into a relationship with her that shaped his future and affected the man he became. Like a mother to him, she was generous, challenging, and inspirational--as she was to so many. Here he shares his portrait of Angelou--a highly complex individual who left an indelible imprint on American culture.

About the Author

Tavis Smiley is the host of PBS's Tavis Smiley and Public Radio International's The Tavis Smiley Show. Smiley is also the bestselling author of 17 books. He lives in Los Angeles, California.