Maya Angelou

MB was shaped by her reading outside school. She never entered a bookshop until she was fourteen, but relied on libraries. Early favourites were C. S. Lewis 's Narnia books, Johanna Spyri 's Heidi books...

She was saved by the public Children's Library. She read omnivorously, beginning with the Dr Doolittle books (Hugh Lofting ) and fairy stories but missing out on Enid Blyton (who was kept locked away)...

The relationship was conducted on antagonistic, sparring lines both before and after the wedding. Since Greer was mostly resident in Leamington Spa (because of her job at Warwick University) and du Feu in London, they...

In the introduction to the book of poems that was her first publication, MJ noted that poetry was a form of expression that comes easier to me than most others. This state of affairs was...

MS had approached Virago Press , a feminist publisher, but was told that they could not give her a decision about including her in their poetry series. They were awaiting the results of negotiations with...

The volume was reprinted in London two years later. Larry Neal provided an introduction in 1971, Robert Hemenway in 1984, and poet Maya Angelou in 1991.

TM spoke, along with Maya Angelou , Amiri Imamu , and the French ambassador, at the funeral of writer James Baldwin at the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York.

The collection features black writers from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Britain and the USA, including Edward Kamau Brathwaite , Zinziswa Mandela , Maya Angelou , and Rabindranath Tagore , alongside traditional and folk poems.