Maya Angelou

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

Milestones

4 April 1928

MA was born in St Louis, Missouri, the younger of two children. In early years she was very close to her brother.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
2014

By December 1969

MA published the first volume of an autobiography that was to extend to six volumes: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, taking her early life as far as the birth of her son when she was sixteen.
Book Review Index. Gale Research.
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By later January 2013

MA gave a starring role to her mother, Vivian Baxter , in Mom & Me & Mom, an episodic collection of anecdotes and aphorisms.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
2014

28 May 2014

MA died at the age of eighty-six at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Innes, Lyn. “Maya Angelou Obituary”. The Guardian.
Innes
Fox, Margalit. “Maya Angelou, Lyrical Witness of the Jim Crow South, Dies at 86”. The New York Times.

Biography

Birth, Background, Violence

4 April 1928

MA was born in St Louis, Missouri, the younger of two children. In early years she was very close to her brother.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
2014