Linda Wagner-Martin - The Life of the Author - Maya Angelou

4 Copyright

5 Table of Contents

6 Acknowledgements

7 List of Illustrations

8 Begin Reading

9 Afterword

10 Notes

11 Bibliography

12 Index

13 End User License Agreement

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I am grateful to the Maya Angelou archives at both the Z. Reynolds Smith Library, Wake Forest University, and the Schomberg Collection for Research in Black Lives, New York. My thanks to Haaris Naqui, who encouraged my academic book on Angelou, and to Richard Bradford and Nicole Allen whose series of literary biographies this book represents. I am particularly grateful to the poet and photographer Eugene B. Redmond for allowing me to use his excellent photos. I owe thanks, too, to earlier Angelou critics: Mary Jane Lupton, Marcia Ann Gillespie, Rosa Johnson Butler, Richard A. Long, Tony Bolden, Selwyn R. Cudjoe, Joanne M. Braxton, Jacqueline S. Thursby, Jeffrey M. Elliot, Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Lyman B. Hagen, Dolly A. McPherson, Cheryl A. Wall, Eleanor Traylor, Claudia Tate, Wallis Tinnie, Karla Holloway, Valerie Baisnee, Carol E. Neubauer, Tavis Smiley, Mildred Mickle, and others.

The only collection of Angelou’s poetry used is The Complete Poetry (2015). All references to Maya Angelou’s autobiographies refer to The Collected Autobiographies . The Notes refer to abbreviated titles in the Bibliography.

Maya Angeloudelivering the Inaugural poem, “On the Pulse Of Morning” at the William Jefferson Clinton Inauguration January, 1993.

Source: Photo by Sharon Farmer. Reproduced by permission of William J. Clinton Presidential Library.

William Jefferson Clintoncongratulating Maya Angelouat his Inauguration.

Maya Angelouat Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, after having received an honorary doctor of letters degree.

Maya Angelouas a fellow at the Rockefeller Institute in Bellagio, on Lake Como, Liguria, Italy, autumn of 1975

Villa Serbellonion the hillside above Lake Como

Maya Angelouwith her sister writers Rosa Guy and Louise Meriwether on one of their sojourns together in North Carolina. Photo © by poet Eugene Redmond. Used by permission of Eugene B. Redmond.

Rita Dove, Toni Morrison, and Maya Angelouat the latter’s party celebrating Toni Morrison’s being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1993. Winter, 1994. Photo © by Eugene Redmond. Used by permission of Eugene B. Redmond.

Holograph copy of MayaAngelou’s important, and often-circulated, statement, A Pledge to Rescue Our Youth. Written for the Essence Music Festival in 2006, this document has been widely circulated by community and church groups ever since.

Coretta Scott Kingand Maya Angelou. Because Martin Luter King, Jr., had been assassinated on the morning of Angelou’s birthday, she renounced any personal celebration. Every year, she and the widow Coretta King communicated on the day of his assassination. Photo © by Eugene Redmond. Used by permission of Eugene B. Redmond.

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