Book description
It is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way back home, leaving behind her
beloved - and now seriously teenage - son Guy, to finish university in
Ghana. America is pulsing with the challenge of change, the civil rights
movement is in full swing and that's where Maya Angelou wants to be,
working alongside her friends Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. In this
marvellous account, Maya Angelou provides, with her customary wisdom,
compassion and wit, a first-hand record of an extraordinarily exciting
and tragic political period. She writes of `Jimmy' Baldwin, Eldridge
Cleaver, and of friends and family, and finishes with the beginnings of
her career as one of America's most impressive memoir writers. Maya
Angelou, author of five previous volumes of autobiography and several
books of poetry, has been an actress, dancer, singer, film director and
political activist. She now has a life-time appointment as Reynolds
Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in North
Carolina.
