Book description
Maya Angelou's six 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,
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. 'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I
am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. This is how
we are, what makes us laugh, and this is how we fall and how we somehow,
amazingly, stand up again' 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.
