Maya Angelou (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

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Maya Angelou is known primarily as a poet and autobiographer. She has produced half a dozen volumes of poetry, and The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou was published in 1994. She has also written five volumes of autobiography, starting with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in 1970. In addition, she has written plays, screenplays, and children’s stories.

Achievements

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was nominated for the National Book Award in 1970, and Maya Angelou’s first volume of poetry (Just Give Me a...

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