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national geographic Maya and her child later moved to Ghana where she was a collaborator manager and teacher at the University of Ghana's School for Music and Drama. She was likewise and editorial manager for The African Review and composed for different distributions.

Maya came back to the United States in 1964. She acknowledged the welcome from Dr Martin Luther King welcomed to serve as the Northern Coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Dr King was killed on her birthday in 1968.

Maya's initially distributed book, "I know Why the Caged Bird Sings", is the first of five self-portraying volumes and recounts her hardships as a young lady. She keeps on composing and represent TV and film and in 1996 coordinated the film "Down in the Delta."

She was selected for a Pulitzer Prize for her 1972 screenplay, Georgia, Georgia. She won the Presidential Medal of Arts in 2000 and The Lincoln award in 2008. She has likewise won three Grammy honors.

In 1993, President Bill Clinton requested that Dr Maya Angelou compose and recount a lyric for him at his initiation. Her wonderful sonnet, "On the Pulse of the Morning", was telecast around the world.

Reference index:

Life accounts:

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970)

Assemble in My Name (1974)

Singin' and Swingin' and Getting' Merry Like Christmas (1978)

The Heart of a Woman (1981)

Every one of God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986)

A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002)

Different Works:

Simply Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Die (1971)

Also, Still I Rise (1978)

Presently Sheba Sings the Song (1987)

I Shall Not Be Moved (1990)

On the Pulse of Morning (1993)

A Brave and Startling Truth (1995)

Extraordinary Woman (1995)

Indeed, even the Stars Look Lonesome (1997)

Letter to My Daughter (2008)