A Brave and Startling Truth

Angelou, Maya

Published by New York: Random House, 1995

About this Item

8vo., blue cloth lettered in gilt; dust jacket. First edition of Angelou's poem read at the 50th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. A presentation copy, inscribed: "Dear Louise Meriwether, As usual, Love! & Joy! Maya Angelou, 4/17/14," on the half-title page ---- Acclaimed author and tireless activist, Louise Meriwether earned a permanent place among literati whose writings reassess the African American experience. Her most enduring novels like "Daddy Was a Number Runner" (with a foreword by James Baldwin) drew high praise from her intimate friend of four decades, Maya Angelou. Meriwether contributed dust jacket blurbs for several of Angelou's works and was a dedicatee of her "The Heart of a Woman." Shortly after Angelou's death in May 2014, Meriwether recalled, "I had told her a little while ago, I said, 'Maya, you know one thing. You gonna die with your boots on,' and she said, 'Yeah, because I never take them off.'" A compelling association copy.

Seller Inventory # ABE-14493470106

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Brave and Startling Truth
• Publisher: New York: Random House
• Publication Date: 1995
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • African American literature