Maya Angelou (Critical Survey of Poetry)

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In addition to being a poet, Maya Angelou is an essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and the author of children’s books and other pieces of short fiction. Along with two volumes of her autobiography, her collection of essays Even the Stars Look Lonesome (1997) was on The New York Times best-seller list for ten consecutive weeks. Her two-act drama The Least of These was produced in Los Angeles in 1966. With her screenplay Georgia, Georgia she became, in 1972, the first African American woman to have an original screenplay...

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