Authors name- Maya Angelou

Death- 28 May 2014

Nationality-  American

Angelou was brought into the world on 4 April 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri. Angelou had troublesome adolescence. Her folks split up when she was exceptionally youthful, and she and her more established sibling, Bailey, were shipped off live with their dad’s mom, Anne Henderson, in Stamps, Arkansas.

As an African American, Angelou experienced firsthand racial biases and segregation in Arkansas. She likewise endured because of a family partner around the age of 7: During an encounter with her mom, Angelou was assaulted by her mom’s beau. As retaliation for the rape, Angelou’s uncles murdered the beau.

As she uncovers in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou was conceived Marguerite Ann Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri, on 4 April 1928. The subsequent youngster and first little girl of Bailey Johnson, a reckless, insouciant Navy dietician, and Vivian Baxter Johnson, a medical caretaker by calling and player by profession, Angelou obtained the top half of her nom de plume from her sibling, Bailey Junior, whose childlike prattling changed “my sister” into “Maya.” Following her folks’ separation in 1931, Maya and Bailey, named on their wrists with “To Whom It May Concern,” were dispatched via train from Long Beach, California, to Stamps, Arkansas, a rustic Southern discharge that stood out profoundly from the citified exhilaration of Maya’s origination.

Unacceptable to the requests of a sincerely harmed youngster, Vivian returned Maya to Stamps, where, with Momma’s direction, she modified confidence by casings herself from the rest of the world, perusing exemplary writing, dominating at school, and copying the sophisticated, erudite preferences of Mrs Bertha Flowers, an old fashioned dark Southern blue-blood who tended to her requirement for spoiling. Following Maya’s graduation with distinction from the eighth grade at Lafayette County Training School in 1940, Momma accompanied her to Los Angeles. Vivian met them and assisted them with moving into a condo. After Bailey went along with them a month later, Momma got back to Stamps, and Maya and Bailey joined Vivian in Oakland. Afterwards, after Vivian wedded Daddy Clidell Jackson, the family finally got comfortable in a fourteen-room house on Post Street in San Francisco’s Fillmore locale.

Angelou has gotten a satisfying portion of public recognition. She holds privileged degrees from Mills College, Smith College, Lawrence University, Oberlin College, Mt. Holyoke, Boston

School, Spelman College, Brown University, Rollins University, North Carolina School of the Arts, and, the main, the University of Arkansas, in the terrace of land ploughed by her incredible grandma, a slave. In 1976, Ladies’ Home Journal picked her Woman of the Year in Communications; in 1987, she acknowledged the North Carolina Award for Literature. After two years, she was named one of USA Today’s fifty dark good examples. She has additionally been designated for a Pulitzer Prize for verse, a Golden Eagle film grant, and an Emmy for acting. She has gotten partnerships from Yale University and the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1983, she acknowledged the Matrix Award from Women in Communications, Inc.; in 1990, alongside artist Judith Jamison and settlement labourer Mother Clara Hale, she got the Candace Award, an honour stretched out by the National Coalition of Black Women to ten dark Americans for accomplishment, character, and administration. In 1993, she read her sonnet “On the Pulse of Morning” at the official introduction services. After four years, she composed the verses to the melodic “Lord!” which was arranged during that year’s official initiation to observe Martin Luther King Jr’s. Birthday.

Maya Angelou kicked the bucket on 28 May, 2014, at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.