Maya Angelou (/ ˈændʒəloʊ / ⓘ AN-jə-loh; [1][2] born Marguerite Annie Johnson; – ) was an American memoirist, essayist, poet, and civil rights activist.
Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and actress whose several volumes of autobiography explore the themes of economic, racial, and sexual oppression. She is perhaps best known for her autobiography ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ (1969).
A multitalented writer and performer, Maya Angelou is best known for her work as an author and poet. Her 1969 memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings made literary history as the first nonfiction...
Angelou had a broad career as a singer, dancer, actress, composer, and Hollywood’s first female black director, but became most famous as a writer, editor, essayist, playwright, and poet. As a civil rights activist, Angelou worked for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.
Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri, had a wide-ranging career as a singer, dancer, actress, and composer, and was one of the first Black women to direct a film in Hollywood.
Angelou, an American author, poet and civil rights activist, rose to prominence with the publication of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” in 1969. Angelou, who died in 2014 at the age of 86, was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2010 by President Barack Obama.
Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri, on . She grew up in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. She was an author, poet, historian, songwriter, playwright, dancer, stage and screen producer, director, performer, singer, and civil rights activist.