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Maya Angelou (1928–2014)

Autor(a) de I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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About the Author

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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos

Séries

Obras de Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) 14,713 cópias
The Heart of a Woman (1981) 2,475 cópias
Gather Together in My Name (1974) 1,493 cópias
Letter to My Daughter (2008) 1,196 cópias
Maya Angelou: Poems (1986) 1,027 cópias
Even the Stars Look Lonesome (1997) 767 cópias
Mom & Me & Mom (2013) 651 cópias
A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002) 643 cópias
Life Doesn't Frighten Me (1993) 541 cópias
And Still I Rise (1978) 525 cópias
On the Pulse of Morning (1993) 450 cópias
I Shall Not Be Moved (1990) — Autor — 340 cópias
The Poetry of Maya Angelou (1990) 138 cópias
Kofi and His Magic (1996) 108 cópias
Mother: A Cradle to Hold Me (2006) 92 cópias
Now Sheba Sings the Song (1987) 80 cópias
A Brave and Startling Truth (1995) 68 cópias
Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? (1983) 61 cópias
Love's Exquisite Freedom (1900) 16 cópias
Our Grandmothers 6 cópias
Down in the Delta (1999) 5 cópias
Maya Angelou 5 cópias
Phänomenale Frauen (2020) 4 cópias
La vie ne me fait pas peur (2018) 3 cópias
Lady B (2014) 3 cópias
Encontraos en mi nombre (2000) 2 cópias
Et pourtant je m'élève (2022) 2 cópias
Graduation (Tale Blazers) (1989) 2 cópias
KADIN KALBİ 2 cópias
The aristocrat 2 cópias
They Came to Stay 1 exemplar(es)
Touched By An Angel 1 exemplar(es)
Kafesteki Kus Neden Sakir, Bilirim (2014) 1 exemplar(es)
Why the Caged Bird Sings 1 exemplar(es)
Deep Rivers in my Soul 1 exemplar(es)
Maya Angelou Boxed Set 1 exemplar(es)
Maya Angelou 4C box set (2002) 1 exemplar(es)
Angelou, Maya Archive 1 exemplar(es)
The Runaway 1 exemplar(es)
En toch heradem ik 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (1942) — Introdução — 1,362 cópias
The Best American Essays of the Century (2000) — Contribuinte — 774 cópias
Not Without Laughter (1930) — Introdução, algumas edições637 cópias
The Norton Book of Women's Lives (1993) — Contribuinte — 411 cópias
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1900) — Introdução, algumas edições382 cópias
Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality (2000) — Contribuinte — 372 cópias
Soul Looks Back in Wonder (1993) — Contribuinte — 205 cópias
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (2020) — Contribuinte — 170 cópias
Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats (2000) — Prefácio — 163 cópias
Black Women Writers at Work (1983) — Contribuinte — 125 cópias
All the Colors of the Race (1982) — Narrador, algumas edições120 cópias
A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer (2007) — Contribuinte — 105 cópias
The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology (1997) — Contribuinte — 98 cópias
Roots [1977 TV miniseries] (1977) — Actor — 96 cópias
Who Do You Think You Are?: Stories of Friends and Enemies (1993) — Contribuinte — 94 cópias
Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry (2020) — Contribuinte — 89 cópias
Read and Rise (2006) — Prefácio — 86 cópias
The Virago Book of Wicked Verse (1992) — Contribuinte — 82 cópias
Mary Ellen Mark: An American Odyssey 1963-1999 (1999) — Contribuinte — 80 cópias
Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation (1984) — Contribuinte — 77 cópias
Honey, Hush! An Anthology of African American Women's Humor (1657) — Contribuinte — 76 cópias
Best Food Writing 2000 (2000) — Contribuinte — 60 cópias
African Canvas: The Art of West African Women (1990) — Prefácio, algumas edições58 cópias
Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African American Poetry (1997) — Contribuinte — 56 cópias
A Virago Keepsake to Celebrate Twenty Years of Publishing (1993) — Contribuinte — 48 cópias
Facing Evil: Light at the Core of Darkness (1988) — Contribuinte — 47 cópias
Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry (1994) — Contribuinte — 46 cópias
I Hear a Symphony: African Americans Celebrate Love (1994) — Contribuinte — 33 cópias
African American Lives [2006 TV episode] (2004) — Narrador — 31 cópias
Women: A World Report (1985) — Contribuinte — 30 cópias
Hot and Cool: Jazz Short Stories (1990) — Contribuinte — 30 cópias
Virago Is 40 (2013) — Contribuinte — 30 cópias
Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women (1983) — Contribuinte — 22 cópias
Go Girl! The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure (1997) — Contribuinte — 20 cópias
Elmo Saves Christmas [1996 film] (2009) — Actor — 19 cópias
Keeping The Faith: African American Sermons Of Liberation (2002) — Introdução — 18 cópias
Bittersweet (1998) — Contribuinte — 10 cópias
Harlem: Voices from the Soul of Black America (1970) — Contribuinte — 9 cópias
Bright Poems for Dark Days: An Anthology for Hope (2021) — Contribuinte — 9 cópias
America Beyond the Color Line [2002 TV series] (2003) — Narrador — 8 cópias
Shall We Dance? (2008) — Prefácio — 7 cópias
Words Among America: Sixty Poems of Challenge and Hope — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work — Narrador, algumas edições1 exemplar(es)

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome padrão
Angelou, Maya
Nome de batismo
Johnson, Marguerite Ann
Outros nomes
Angelou, Maya
Data de nascimento
1928-04-04
Data de falecimento
2014-05-28
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
Amerika
País (para mapa)
USA
Local de nascimento
St. Louis, Missouri, VS
Local de falecimento
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, VS
Locais de residência
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Stamps, Arkansas, USA
San Francisco, California, USA
New York, New York, USA
Sonoma, California, USA
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Educação
George Washington High School, San Francisco
California Labor School, San Francisco
Ocupação
dancer
singer
teacher
actress
activist
Reynolds Professorship of American Studies, Wake Forest University (mostrar todas 8)
memoirist
poet
Relacionamentos
Johnson, Guy (son)
Organizações
Wake Forest University
Premiações
Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature (1999)
National Medal of Arts (2000)
Grammy, Best Spoken Word Album (1993 ∙ 1995 ∙ 2002)
NAACP Spingarn Medal (1994)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2011)
Coretta Scott King Award (1971) (mostrar todas 39)
North Carolina Award in Literature (1987)
Golden Plate Award (1990)
Candace Award (1990)
Langston Hughes Medal (1991)
Horatio Alger Award (1992)
Distinguished Woman of North Carolina Award (1992)
Crystal Award (1992)
Crystal Award (1992)
Inauguration Poet (1993)
Arkansas Black Hall of Fame (1993)
Rollins College Walk of Fame (1994)
Frank G. Wells American Teachers Award (1995)
Homecoming Award (1997)
NAACP Image Award (1998 ∙ 2005 ∙ 2009)
Alston-Jones International Civil & Human Rights Award (1998)
National Women's Hall of Fame (1998)
Christopher Award (1999)
Shelia Award (1999)
EMMA Lifetime Achievement Award (2002)
Charles Evans Hughes Award (2004)
Mother Teresa Award (2006)
Martha Parker Legacy Award (2007)
Voice of Peace Award (2008)
Gracie Award (2008)
Marian Anderson Award (2008)
Lincoln Medal (2008)
ALA Literary Award (2009)
Black Cultural Society Award (2012)
Literarian Award (2013)
Norman Mailer Prize (2013)
Conference of Minority Transportation Officials Lifetime Achievement Award (2014)
Ladies' Home Journal "Woman of the Year in Communication" Award (1976)
Matrix Award (1983)
Pequena biografia
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

Membros

Discussions

Maya Angelou's Library em Legacy Libraries (Agosto 2015)

Resenhas

Com sua escrita poderosa e poética, Maya nos guia por sua incrível história de vida, compartilhando não apenas suas lutas, mas também suas esperanças e sonhos para as futuras gerações.

Nesse manual de inspiração e superação, ela nos desafia a assumir o controle de nossas vidas e a nos tornarmos protagonistas de nossa própria narrativa. Prepare-se para ser cativado por uma das vozes mais influentes do movimento pelos direitos civis e mergulhe em um relato comovente que exalta a vida em sua plenitude.

Esta edição especial conta ainda com o prefácio inédito da renomada escritora Conceição Evaristo, adicionando um toque de valor e relevância contemporânea.
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Estatísticas

Obras
115
Also by
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Membros
34,519
Popularidade
#549
Avaliação
4.0
Resenhas
517
ISBNs
532
Idiomas
13
Favorito
118

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