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Find out moreAnyone who's read the classic, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, knows Maya Angelou was raised by her paternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. In Mom & Me & Mom, Angelou details what brought her mother to send her away and unearths the well of emotions Angelou experienced long afterward as a result. While Angelou's six autobiographies tell of her out in the world, influencing and learning from statesmen and cultural icons, Mom & Me & Mom shares the intimate, emotional story about her own family.
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This is the stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter Johnson: the first black woman officer in the Merchant Marines, purveyor of a gambling business and rooming house, and mother to one of our most cherished literary treasures. Anyone who's read the classic, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, knows Maya Angelou was raised by her paternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. In Mom & Me & Mom, Angelou details what brought her mother to send her away and unearths the well of emotions Angelou experienced long afterward as a result. While Angelou's six autobiographies tell of her out in the world, influencing and learning from statesmen and cultural icons, Mom & Me & Mom shares the intimate, emotional story about her own family.
Closing date: 12/03/2021
ISBN: 9781844089154
Publication date: 06/03/2014
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback
ISBN: | 9781844089154 |
Publication date: | 6th March 2014 |
Author: | Maya Angelou |
Publisher: | Virago Press Ltd an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 208 pages |
Genres: | Biography / Autobiography, eBook Favourites, Diverse Voices, |
Collections: | 80+ Must-read Novels by Black Writers - Black Lit Matters, 60+ works of feminist-minded fiction - Women’s Words, |
Categories: | Autobiography: literary, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, |
Maya Angelou, playwright, actress, dancer, activist, filmmaker, is most famous for her six volumes of autobiography beginning with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Maya Angelou died in 2014.
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