ARGONAUT BOOKS

In this, the first volume of her autobiography, writer and poet Maya Angelou reflects on her childhood spent growing up in the American South of the 1930s. There she learned the power of the white townsfolk and suffered the trauma of rape. Reviews A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal womanPresident Barack ObamaThe poems and stories she wrote . . . were gifts of wisdom and wit, courage and gracePresident Bill ClintonShe moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my cloudsOprah Winf...Read More