* Featured on Virago.co.uk
* Featured on Virago.co.uk
In addition to her autobiography, Maya Angelou has written several volumes of poetry, including On the Pulse of the Morning for the inauguration of President Clinton. She has a life-time appointment as Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University.
Extraordinary . . . a jaw-dropper of a memoir -- Viv Groskop * Red
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A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal
woman
The poems and stories she wrote . . . were gifts of wisdom and wit,
courage and grace
She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a
fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds --
Oprah Winfrey
She was important in so many ways. She launched African American
women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault.
She had nineteen talents - used ten. And was a real original. There
is no duplicate -- Toni Morrison
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