Younge, Gary. “Maya Angelou: a titan who lived as though there were no tomorrow”. The Guardian.
Maya Angelou
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Standard Name: Angelou, Maya
Birth Name: Marguerite Annie Johnson
Married Name: Angelos
Nickname: Maya
Self-constructed Name: Maya Angelou
a talented Renaissance woman of the twentieth-century United States.
overcame the unpromising circumstances of her birth and upbringing to become an African-American poet, song-writer, autobiographer, and political activist,