![]() ![]() Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 best non-fiction books of the twentieth century and by Time Magazine as one of the top 100 non-fiction books written in English since 1923. The free bird thinks of another breeze and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn and he names the sky his own. Her portrait is a biblical study in life in the midst of death" (James Baldwin). In this first volume of her six books of. ![]() I have no words for this achievement, but I know that not since the days of my childhood, when the people in books were more real than the people one saw every day, have I found myself so moved. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy,achievement and celebration. The book chronicles her life from age 3 through age 16, recounting an unsettled and sometimes traumatic childhood that included rape and racism. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the first of seven autobiographical works by American writer Maya Angelou, published in 1969. "This testimony from a black sister marks the beginning of a new era in the minds and hearts of all black men and women. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Roger Stephens, Joy! Maya Angelou." Fine in a fine dust jacket. ![]() Octavo, original first issue book, with the top edge stained red. First edition of Angelou's critically acclaimed first book. ![]()
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