I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
New York, NY: Random House, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. “Superbly told, with the poet’s gift for language and observation, and charged with the unforgettable emotion of remembered anguish and love—this remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black girl from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant” (back flap). Before she became the iconic writer and activist known throughout the world, Margarite Annie Johnson (a.k.a. Maya..... More
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