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A Song Flung Up to Heaven

English

By (author): Dr Maya Angelou

A memoir of politics and activism, from the bestselling and beloved author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS

'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA

It is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way back home, leaving behind her beloved - and now seriously teenage son Guy, to finish university in Ghana. America is pulsing with the challenge of change, the civil rights movement is in full swing and that's where Maya Angelou wants to be, working alongside her friends Malcolm X and Martin Luther King.

In this marvellous account, Maya Angelou provides, with her customary wisdom, compassion and wit, a first-hand record of an extraordinarily exciting and tragic political period. She writes of Jimmy Baldwin, Eldridge Cleaver, and of friends and family, and finishes with the beginnings of her career as one of America's most impressive memoir writers.

'She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds' OPRAH WINFREY

'She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault. She had nineteen talents - used ten. And was a real original. There is no duplicate' TONI MORRISON

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Product Details
  • Weight: 160g
  • Dimensions: 126 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Apr 2024
  • Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780349017099

About Dr Maya Angelou

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 memoirist poet playwright civil rights' activist - working with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. 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. She died in 2014.

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