Synopsis
Maya Angelou's five 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. The fourth volume of her enthralling autobiography finds Maya Angelou immersed in the world of black writers and artists in Harlem, working in the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King. 'She has a great capacity for love, to give, and receive it' Margaret Busby
Book details
Published
07/08/2008
Publisher
Virago Press Ltd
ISBN
9781844085040
Publisher and industry reviews
Jacket review
'Loving the world, Maya Angelou also knows its cruelty and offers up her autobiography as an extraordinary mixture of innocene and depravity, of elegy and celebration' - NICCI GERRARD, NEW STATESMAN 'The freshness of Maya Angelou's writing is something to marvel at' - PHILIP OAKES
About the author
Maya Angelou
As well as her autobiography Maya Angelou has written several volumes of poetry, including ON THE PULSE OF THE MORNING for the inauguration of President Clinton. She now has a life-time appointment as Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University.
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