The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the ...

A poet, memoirist, activist, and educator, Maya Angelou's life story is evidence of resilience ... Missouri, Angelou's early ...

Angelou returned to America. There she decided to devote herself to writing. She was encouraged to write the story of her life and the first volume published in 1969 was an immediate success.

Maya Angelou achieved enough during her extraordinary life to fill seven autobiographies ... was absent during much of her early childhood. But they grew closer as she got older, and when Angelou ...