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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

The internationally bestselling classic
By Dr Maya Angelou
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings is a powerful memoir by Dr Maya Angelou that recounts her early years, capturing the struggles and triumphs of growing up in the racially segregated American South. The narrative explores themes of identity, racism, and resilience while chronicling Angelou's personal growth and the development of her self-awareness through both adversity and the nurturing influences in her life.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy powerful and moving autobiographies that explore themes of identity, resilience, and the strength of the human spirit. Dr Maya Angelou's masterpiece offers a poignant depiction of overcoming adversity through personal growth and the power of words, likely resonating with those who appreciate inspiring true stories.

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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

One of America's most important classics, a beautiful special edition hardback of the first and best-loved volume of Maya Angelou's bestselling seven-volume autobiography

One of America's most important classics, a beautiful special edition hardback of the first and best-loved volume of Maya Angelou's bestselling seven-volume autobiography

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Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty.

As a Black woman, she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement, and celebration.

In this first volume of her six books of autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American South of the 1930s. She learns the power of the white folks at the other end of town and suffers the terrible trauma of rape by her mother's lover.

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Dr Maya Angelou is celebrated as a brilliant writer and phenomenal woman. Her work is praised for its wisdom, wit, courage, and grace, and she is recognised for her unshakeable calm and confidence. Angelou is credited with launching African American women's writing in the United States and is remembered as a generous and original figure.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780349005997

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 31 March 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Virago Press Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 207.0mm

Weight: 391g

Pages: 320

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About the Author

Dr Maya Angelou was one of the world's most important writers and activists. Born 4 April 1928, she lived and chronicled an extraordinary life: rising from poverty, violence and racism, she became a renowned author, poet, playwright, civil rights' activist - working with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King - and memoirist. She wrote and performed a poem, 'On the Pulse of Morning', for President Clinton on his inauguration; she was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama and was honoured by more than seventy universities throughout the world.

She first thrilled the world with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). This was followed by six volumes of autobiography, the seventh and final volume, Mom & Me & Mom, published in 2013. She wrote three collections of essays; many volumes of poetry, including His Day is Done, a tribute to Nelson Mandela; and two cookbooks. She had a lifetime appointment as Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University of North Carolina. Dr Angelou died on 28 May 2014.

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