James Bertolino, "Maya Angelou Is Three Writers. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," in Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints, edited by N J Karolides, L Burgess, and J. M Kean, The Scarecrow Press, 1993, pp. 299-305.
Bertolino views Angelou as a gifted shaper of words and literary devices, an intensely honest person, and an important social commentator.
Jeffrey M. Elliot, editor, Conversations with Maya Angelou, University of Mississippi Press, 1989.
An insightful collection of reprinted interviews with Angelou.
Onita Estes-Hicks, "The Way We Were: Precious Memories of the Black Segregated South," in African American Review, Vol. 27, No.1, pp 9-18.
Estes-Hicks places Angelou's autobiography within the tradition of Black Southern autobiographies by comparing and contrasting with other writers.
Mary Jane Lupton, "Singing the Black Mother. Maya Angelou and Autobiographical Continuity," in Black American Literature Forum, Vol.....
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