Author
Maya Angelou
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is Maya Angelou's memoir of growing up Black in the segregated South and beyond, from a childhood in Stamps, Arkansas with her brother and grandmother to St. Louis and San Francisco. It is a book about harm, humor, and the books and words that gave her a way out.