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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings /

by Angelou, Maya
Additional authors: Winfrey, Oprah, -- 1954- , -- author of introduction.
Edition statement:Ballantine books mass market edition. Published by : Ballantine Books; (New York :) Physical details: ix, 289 pages ; 18 cm ISBN:9780808510574.
Subject(s): Angelou, Maya -- Childhood and youth. | Angelou, Maya -- Homes and haunts -- Arkansas. | Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography. | Entertainers -- United States -- Biography. | African American families -- Arkansas. | African American authors -- Biography. | Arkansas -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. | Arkansas -- Social life and customs. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures.
Year: 1969 Item type: Print
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Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local 'powhitetrash.' At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors ('I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare') will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned.

Coretta Scott King Award, 1971

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