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BBC Radio 4's stunning dramatisations of Maya Angelou's autobiographies - modern American classics beloved worldwide

About the Author

Maya Angelou (Author) Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and The Heart of a Woman, she wrote numerous volumes of poetry, among them Phenomenal Woman, And Still I Rise, On the Pulse of Morning, and Mother. Maya Angelou died in 2014.