Gather Together in My Name | Gather Together in My Name

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Author: Maya Angelou
First Published: 1974
Time of Work: 1945–1948
Setting: San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Stockton, and Bakersfield, California; and Stamps, Arkansas
Principal Characters: Maya Angelou, Vivian Baxter, Bailey Johnson, Guy, Carrie Henderson, Johnnie Mae, R. L. Poole, L. D. Tolbrook, Big Mary
Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
Subjects: African Americans, Maturation or coming of age, Teenagers, Authors or writers, Autobiography, Prostitution or prostitutes, Storytelling, Women, Kidnapping
Locales: Los Angeles, CA, San Francisco, CA, Stamps, AR, Stockton, CA, Bakersfield, CA, San Diego, CA

Told with beauty and grace, Maya Angelou’s autobiographical work Gather Together in My Name soars and sings. Written nearly three decades after the period it portrays, the autobiography is a recollection of roughly three years in Angelou’s life. Not afraid to bare her soul and admit to bad judgment, followed by sometimes devastating consequences, Angelou gives readers glimpses into the challenges faced by a seventeen-year-old mother, herself still a child, trying to make her way in the world with her young son. The period covered is described...

Gather Together in My Name | Gather Together in My Name

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