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Memoir, Biography & Letters · Fiction & Novels · Poetry

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Maya Angelou

I am a memoirist, essayist and poet. I have published seven autobiographies, three books of essays and several books of poetry, and I write plays, film and television across more than fifty years of creative work.

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Memoir, Biography & Letters · Fiction & Novels · Poetry

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I write memoir, poetry and film across fifty years

I turn one life into literature that a whole culture reads as its own story.

I am also a civil rights activist; my seven autobiographies follow my childhood and early adult years, the material my writing is built from.

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  1. Memoir, Biography & Letters

    6 cards with evidence

    • I write memoir, poetry and film across fifty years
    • How I enter memory before I write a single line
    • I say "I" and mean "we" in every autobiography

  2. Poetry

    2 cards with evidence

    • I write poems to be performed, not only printed
    • I recited On the Pulse of Morning at the 1993 inauguration

  3. Fiction & Novels

    2 cards with evidence

    • "I write for money", like Balzac did
    • How I enter memory before I write a single line

  4. Teaching & Schooling

    2 cards with evidence

    • I became "a teacher who writes" at Wake Forest
    • My Caged Bird became a teaching text on race and growth

  5. Film & Television

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    • I wrote Georgia, Georgia, the first script by a Black woman