Literature
Maya Angelou
1928 – 2014
Author of seven autobiographies beginning with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). Read her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” at President Clinton's first inauguration in 1993. Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2010.
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