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Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson on April 4, 1928 in Saint Louis, Missouri. At the age of 16, she became not only the first black streetcar conductor in San Francisco but the first woman conductor. In the mid-1950s, she toured Europe with a production of the opera Porgy and Bess. In 1957, she recorded her first album, Calypso Lady. In 1958, she became a part of the Harlem Writers Guild in New York and played a queen in The Blacks, an off-Broadway production by French dramatist Jean Genet. In 1960, she moved to Cairo, where she edited The Arab Observer, an English-language weekly newspaper. The following year, she went to Ghana where she was features editor of The African Review and taught music and drama at the University of Ghana. In 1964, she moved back to the U.S. to become a civil rights activist by helping Malcolm X build his new coalition, the Organization of African American Unity, and became the northern coordinator of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Even though she never went to college, she taught American studies for years at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem. In 1993, she became only the second poet in United States history to write and recite an original poem at a Presidential Inauguration when she read On the Pulse of Morning at President Bill Clinton's Inauguration Ceremony. She wrote numerous books during her lifetime including: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, and Mom and Me and Mom. In 2011, President Barack Obama gave her the Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor, for her collected works of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. She appeared in the movie Roots and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in 1977 for her role in the movie. She also played a part in the movie, How to Make an American Quilt and wrote and produced Afro-Americans in the Arts, a PBS special for which she received a Golden Eagle Award. She was a three-time Grammy winner. She died on May 28, 2014 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) — biographie de Je sais pourquoi chante l'oiseau en cage… (plus d'informations)
Je sais pourquoi chante l'oiseau en cage 13,656 exemplaire(s), 211 critiques
Tant que je serai noire 2,316 exemplaire(s), 16 critiques
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now 1,803 exemplaire(s), 17 critiques
Gather Together in My Name 1,399 exemplaire(s), 15 critiques
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou 1,166 exemplaire(s), 6 critiques
Un billet d'avion pour l'Afrique 1,086 exemplaire(s), 11 critiques
Letter to My Daughter 1,085 exemplaire(s), 25 critiques
Maya Angelou: Poems 946 exemplaire(s), 6 critiques
Even the Stars Look Lonesome 703 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques
Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women 612 exemplaire(s), 7 critiques
A Song Flung Up to Heaven 598 exemplaire(s), 6 critiques
Mom & Me & Mom 590 exemplaire(s), 48 critiques
And Still I Rise 491 exemplaire(s), 16 critiques
Life Doesn't Frighten Me 471 exemplaire(s), 22 critiques
On the Pulse of Morning 428 exemplaire(s), 5 critiques
Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem 382 exemplaire(s), 10 critiques
Poetry for Young People: Maya Angelou 347 exemplaire(s), 14 critiques
My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me 322 exemplaire(s), 8 critiques
I Shall Not Be Moved (Auteur) 320 exemplaire(s), 5 critiques
The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou 276 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer 161 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques
The Poetry of Maya Angelou 111 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
Kofi and His Magic 99 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques
Mother: A Cradle to Hold Me 87 exemplaire(s), 5 critiques
Now Sheba Sings the Song 76 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? 59 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
His Day Is Done: A Nelson Mandela Tribute 57 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques
Love's Exquisite Freedom 15 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques
Amazing Peace and Other Poems 6 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques
Down in the Delta 5 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
Maya Angelou 4 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
Phänomenale Frauen 4 exemplaire(s)
Mrs. Flowers: A Moment of Friendship 4 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
Our Grandmothers 3 exemplaire(s)
Lady B 2 exemplaire(s)
Encontraos en mi nombre 2 exemplaire(s)
The aristocrat 2 exemplaire(s)
En toch heradem ik 1 exemplaire
They Came to Stay 1 exemplaire
Touched By An Angel 1 exemplaire
Je reprendrais bien un peu de rêve 1 exemplaire, 1 critique
The Runaway 1 exemplaire
Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (Introduction) 1,267 exemplaire(s), 17 critiques
The Best American Essays of the Century (Contributeur) 727 exemplaire(s), 4 critiques
Not Without Laughter (Introduction, quelques éditions) 588 exemplaire(s), 11 critiques
Written by Herself, Volume I: Autobiographies of American Women (Contributeur) 409 exemplaire(s), 5 critiques
The Norton Book of Women's Lives (Contributeur) 397 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (Introduction, quelques éditions) 359 exemplaire(s), 6 critiques
Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality (Contributeur) 349 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques
I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America (Avant-propos) 346 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques
Soul Looks Back in Wonder (Contributeur) 191 exemplaire(s), 5 critiques
The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature (Contributeur) 160 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques
Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats (Avant-propos) 156 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (Contributeur) 140 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques
Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature (Contributeur) 133 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
All the Colors of the Race (Narrateur, quelques éditions) 114 exemplaire(s), 14 critiques
Black Women Writers at Work (Contributeur) 93 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
Racines, une production de David L. Wolper (Actor) 87 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques
Read and Rise (Avant-propos) 84 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques
Mary Ellen Mark: An American Odyssey 1963-1999 (Contributeur) 78 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
The Virago Book of Wicked Verse (Contributeur) 78 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry (Contributeur) 77 exemplaire(s), 31 critiques
African Canvas: The Art of West African Women (Avant-propos, quelques éditions) 52 exemplaire(s)
Facing Evil: Light at the Core of Darkness (Contributeur) 45 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry (Contributeur) 43 exemplaire(s)
In My Mother's Kitchen: 25 Writers on Love, Cooking, and Family (Contributeur) 31 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques
Women: A World Report (Contributeur) 30 exemplaire(s)
Virago Is 40 (Contributeur) 29 exemplaire(s)
Hot and Cool: Jazz Short Stories (Contributeur) 28 exemplaire(s)
African American Lives [2006 TV episode] (Narrateur) 28 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques
Elmo Saves Christmas [1996 film] (Actor) 18 exemplaire(s)
Bittersweet (Contributeur) 10 exemplaire(s)
Harlem: Voices from the Soul of Black America (Contributeur) 8 exemplaire(s)
Shall We Dance? (Avant-propos) 7 exemplaire(s)

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Maya Angelou (pronounced /ˈmaɪ.ə ˈændʒəloʊ/;[1] born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928)[2] is an American autobiographer and poet. Having been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton, she is best known for her series of six autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adulthood experiences.[3] The first, best-known, and most highly acclaimed, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), focuses on the first seventeen years of her life, brought her international recognition, and was nominated for a National Book Award.

Angelou has had a long and varied career, holding jobs such as fry cook, dancer, actress, journalist, educator, television producer, and film director. She was a member of the Harlem Writers Guild in the late 1950s. She was active in the Civil Rights movement, and served as Northern Coordinator of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Angelou has been highly honored for her body of work, including being awarded over 30 honorary degrees and the nomination of a Pulitzer Prize for her 1971 volume of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie.[4] Since the 1990s, she has had a busy career on the lecture circuit, making about 80 appearances a year. Since 1991, Angelou has taught at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, as recipient of the first lifetime Reynolds Professorship of American Studies. In 1993, she recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Bill Clinton's inauguration, the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961. In 1995, she was recognized for having the longest-running record (two years) on The New York Times Paperback Nonfiction Bestseller List.

With the publication of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou was heralded as a new kind of memoirist, one of the first African American women who was able to publicly discuss her personal life. She became recognized and highly respected as a spokesperson for blacks and women
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