Rest in Peace Maya Angelou New York Times, May 28, 2014 – Maya Angelou, the memoirist and poet whose landmark book of 1969, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” — which describes in lyrical, unsparing prose her childhood in the Jim Crow South — was among the first autobiographies by a 20th-century black woman to reach a wide general readership, died on Wednesday in her home. She was 86 and lived in Winston-Salem, N.C Maya Angelou, Lyrical Witness of the Jim Crow South, Dies at 86 Read More
Maya Angelou, Lyrical Witness of the Jim Crow South, Dies at 86
