Gather Together In My Name

Author: Maya Angelou

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  • : $24.99 AUD
  • : 9781844085026
  • : Little Brown
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  • : June 2008
  • : 198mm X 127mm X 14mm
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Description

Maya Angelou's volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In the sequel to her best-selling I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou is a young mother in California, unemployed, embarking on brief affairs and transient jobs in shops and night-clubs, turning to prostitution and the world of narcotics.

Promotion info

The second title in Maya Angelou's bestselling autobiography is reissued in a new look to coincide with the publication of her new book

Reviews

** 'Angelou has the knack of guiding us along the seamier side of life while making us feel refreshed and restored like a terrfic gospel blues singer' GUARDIAN 'She has the knack of guiding us along the seamier side of life while making us feel refreshed and restored like a terrfic gospel blues singer' - Guardian

Author description

Dr Maya Angelou was one of the world's most important writers and activists. Born 4 April 1928, she lived and chronicled an extraordinary life: rising from poverty, violence and racism, she became a renowned author, poet, playwright, civil rights' activist - working with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King - and memoirist. She wrote and performed a poem, 'On the Pulse of Morning', for President Clinton on his inauguration; she was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama and was honoured by more than seventy universities throughout the world. She first thrilled the world with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). This was followed by six volumes of autobiography, the seventh and final volume, Mom & Me & Mom, published in 2013. She wrote three collections of essays; many volumes of poetry, including His Day is Done, a tribute to Nelson Mandela; and two cookbooks. She had a lifetime appointment as Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University of North Carolina. Dr Angelou died on 28 May 2014.