I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
«A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman»
President Barack Obama
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Virago Press Ltd
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 320
- ISBN
- 9780349005997
- Utgivelsesår
- 2015
- Format
- 21 x 14 cm
Om forfatteren
She first thrilled the world with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). This was followed by six volumes of autobiography, the seventh and final volume, Mom & Me & Mom, published in 2013. She wrote three collections of essays; many volumes of poetry, including His Day is Done, a tribute to Nelson Mandela; and two cookbooks. She had a lifetime appointment as Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University of North Carolina. She died in 2014.
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«A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman»
President Barack Obama
«She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault. She had nineteen talents - used ten. And was a real original. There is no duplicate»
Toni Morrison
«I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity»
James Baldwin
«A trailblazer in decolonial, anti-racist movements and intersectional feminism, memoirist, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou is a powerhouse of a woman»
Daily Mail
«Steeped in resilience and grace»
The i paper
«The poems and stories she wrote . . . were gifts of wisdom and wit, courage and grace»
President Bill Clinton
«She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds»
Oprah Winfrey