Essay Archive - Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou, born April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis,
was raised in segregated rural Arkansas. She is a poet, historian, author,
actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, and director. She has been
working at Wake Forest University in north Carolina since 1981.She has
published ten best selling books and numerous magazine articles earning her
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nomination. At the request of
President Clinton, she wrote and delivered a poem at his 1993 presidential
inauguration. Whole her life, Maya Angelou has been trying to make
something special in the poet....
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