Maya Angelou (born 1928)--author, poet, playwright, stage and screen performer, and director--is best known for her autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970), which recalls a young African American woman's discovery of her self-confidence. Ma...

Maya Angelou's literary significance rests primarily upon her exceptional ability to tell her life story as both a human being and a black American woman in the twentieth century. Five serial autobiographical volumes have been published to date (in 1969,...

Maya Angelou's literary significance rests upon her exceptional ability to tell her life story as both a human being and a black American woman in the twentieth century. Four serial autobiographical volumes have been published to date (in 1970, 1974, 197...

Byline: Maya Angelou Dear Oprah, On the day of your birth The Creator filled countless storehouses With rich ointments, Luscious tapestries, Jewels worthy of a queen's dowry And antique coins of incredible value They were...

The poem Maya Angelou read to the nation yesterday stressed the huge variety of voices in this country and the world, all of them worthy, all of them equal. So perhaps it's appropriate that her fellow poets had a huge range of responses to...