I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1970)
Maya Angelou's autobiography was nominated for a National Book Award. In this, the first autobiographical volume, she beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American South of the 1930's.
Autobiography: "I know why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou (1970)
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- Essay: A Song of Freedom: Maya Angelou's "I know why the Caged Bird Sings" [PDF]SOURCE: Fisher, J. & Silber, E. (2003), "Women In Literature: Reading through the Lens of gender," Greenwood Press, London, pp 147-149.
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