Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson) was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees.
She became a poet and writer after a series of occupations as a young adult, including fry cook, prostitute, nightclub dancer and performer, cast member of the opera Porgy and Bess, coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and journalist in Egypt and Ghana during the decolonization of Africa. She was an actor, writer, director, and producer of plays, movies, and public television programs. In 1982, she earned the first lifetime Reynolds Professorship of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was active in the Civil Rights movement, and worked with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X.
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Books
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- The heart of a woman
- And Still I Rise
- Letter to my daughter
- Poems
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level
- Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now
- Gather together in my name
- All God's children need traveling shoes
- Life Doesn’t Frighten Me
- Singin' and swingin' and gettin' merry like Christmas
- Prentice Hall Literature--Silver
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Silver Level
- Maya Angelou Omnibus
- Maya Angelou
- Phenomenal Woman
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Copper Level
- Prentice Hall Literature
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold
- Prentice Hall Literature [Grade Ten]