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The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou

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Name: Maya Angelou
Variant Name: Marguerite Johnson
Birth Date: April 4, 1928
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Female
Occupations: author, poet, playwright, actress

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Biography of Maya Angelou
1263 words, approx. 4.2 pages
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...
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Biography of Maya Angelou
6562 words, approx. 21.9 pages
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,...
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Biography of Maya Angelou
4735 words, approx. 15.8 pages
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...
 


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The Heart of a Woman Information
138 words, approx. 1 pages
The Heart of a Woman (1981, ISBN 0-553-24689-5 ) is a memoir by Maya Angelou, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club® selection. The Heart of a Woman is 273 pages long and basically picks up where I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings left off. The memoir is...


News and Journals
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Denver Rocky Mountain News
A Design Woman At Heart
11/26/2000: 542 words, approx. 2 pages
Betsy Lehndorff; News Staff Writer Denver Rocky Mountain News 11-26-2000 A DESIGN WOMAN AT HEART Sometimes design can be a lifesaver. You know. Like the doughnut they throw in after you when you've gone overboard for one reason or another. The lifesaver...
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Evening Standard - London
Woman with two hearts
06/08/2000: 305 words, approx. 1 pages
A TEXTBOOK exercise in classic Hollywood scriptwriting structure, as purveyed by Robert McKee, Bonnie Hunt's writing/directing debut is a thoroughly attractive stab at a much-abused genre - the romantic comedy. First the pitch. Figure (a): beautiful girl with terminal heart condition awaits suitable...
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The New York Observer
Two-Faced Woman? The Glory of Garbo
9/25/2005: 1,271 words, approx. 4 pages
The parodists have it wrong. They’ve turned the phrase most identified with Greta Garbo—“I want to be alone”—into something that might have issued from Bela Lugosi. Garbo did not pronounce the “w” as a “v” (she says “want,” not “vant”); she did not declaim those...
 


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