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Fine/Fine. A wonderful bright clean copy free of any markings, writings, or stamps. Personally signed by Maya Angelou, America's favorite poet and Presidential Medal of Freedom winning author. Angelou had a broad career as a singer, dancer, actress, composer, and Hollywood's first female black director, but became most famous as a writer, editor, essayist, playwright, and poet. As a civil rights activist, Angelou worked for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. New York, Random House 1997. Maya Angelou "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings". Signed First Edition. Hardcover book with dust jacket as issued. This volume has been personally signed by Maya Angelou directly onto the half-title page: "Robert, Joy! Maya Angelou". Includes original bookseller issued COA. Fine/Fine. Copyright 1997 renewed Signed First Edition with full number line "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1" The original first printing of this book was 1969. On the New York Times bestseller list for over three years, it was the first by an African-American woman. By the author of ten novels, including five volumes of autobiography. An important book by an important American voice. Maya Angelou was a world-famous author. She was best known for her unique and pioneering autobiographical writing style. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" Maya Angelou s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS s American Masters. Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local powhitetrash. At eight years old and back at her mother s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors ( I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare ) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity. James Baldwin ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Maya Angelou, born April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, was raised in the perilously dangerous times of segregated Arkansas. Dr. Angelous is globally respected and admired for her poetry, role as a historian, loved author, impeccable actress, playwright, African American civil-rights activist, producer and director. Her lectures throughout the USA and in foreign countries are spellbinding. I heard her once in a ceremony to remember ERic Butterworth in New York City and will never forget her resonating voice and the profound simplicity of the intricate human images she manifested by way of a poem whose linguistic rhythm was key in contributing to a sense of vitality and initiative and progress that rises and is never apathetic. In 1981, she became a Reynolds professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. She has authored and published a total of ten best selling books and many magazine articles earning her coveted Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominations. President William Jefferson Clinton asked her to write and deliver a poem at his January 1993 presidential inauguration.
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