About the Author

All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. She grew up in Stamps. Arkansas with her brother under the guardianship of her grandmother. As she grew up, she moved to San Francisco and  was inspired by her friend James Baldwin to publish her autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Later in life, she became involved in the civil rights movement, getting close to both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. She also became celebrated abroad and spent many years traveling throughout Africa, eventually advocating against Apartheid in South Africa. Her work has reached critical acclaim and she has become known for her music, poetry, plays, and screenplays. She has poetry at both Bill Clinton's inauguration and was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama.

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