Maya Angelou Biography

Maya Angelou 

Maya Angelou is a poet and screenwriter, orator, and African-American actress. He was the first African-American woman who was asked to recite poems in the United States presidential inauguration in 1993. Poem that he read in the appointment of Bill Clinton titled "On the pulse of the Morning" and the work was well received Grammy Awards (Grammy Awards) in the same year.



Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson by name on 4 April 1928 in Saint Louis, Missouri, from the couple Bailey Johnson and Vivian Baxter Johnson. When his parents divorced, Maya along with an older brother had left with their grandmother for a few tahun.Pada 1936, Maya was raped by her mother's lover and he was later murdered by his uncle. As a result of the death of that person, and Maya can be difficult to speak for five years. He has written several best-selling book and contains some of the events that had experienced themselves. Several books he wrote is I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (1970), Gather Together in My Name (1974), and A Song Flung Up To Heaven (2002). In addition, he was the first black woman who wrote the screenplay and produced a film, namely Georgia, Georgia (1971