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Maya Angelou
Who Was Maya Angelou?
A multitalented writer and performer, Maya Angelou is best known for her work as an author and poet.
Her memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, made literary history as the first nonfiction bestseller by a Black woman.
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Some of her famous poems include “Phenomenal Woman,” “Still I Rise,” and “On the Pulse of Morning,” which she recited at President Bill Clinton’s inauguration in and which earned her a Grammy Award. Angelou also enjoyed a career as a Tony- and Emmy-nominated actor and singer in plays, musicals, and onscreen.
She became the first Black woman to have a screenplay produced with the movie Georgia, Georgia. In her work as a civil rights activist, she collaborated with Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, among others. The Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient died in May at age
Quick Facts
FULL NAME: Marguerite Ann Johnson
BORN: April 4,
DIED: May 28,
BIRTHPLACE: St.
Louis, Missouri
SPOUSES: Tosh Angelos (c. ), Vusum
