Who wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?

Maya Angelou wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, first published in 1969. It is a work of biography & memoir and is rated 'Essential Read' in our catalogue.

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Name: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Author: Maya Angelou

by Maya Angelou · 1969

Biography & Memoir · ranked #6 in category

Maya Angelou's memoir of her childhood and adolescence in the American South and in California — the racism, the trauma and the gradual emergence of her voice through literature. One of the most widely assigned and most challenged memoirs in American education, it announces one of the great literary voices of the 20th century.

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