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MAYA ANGELOU (1928- )
Angelou toured
Europe and Africa in the musical Porgy and Bess in the 195455 season. She then sang in
New York City nightclubs, joined the Harlem Writers Guild, and took part in several Off
Broadway productions, including Genet's The Blacks and her own Cabaret for Freedom
(1960). During the 1960s she was active in the African-American political movement; she
subsequently spent several years in Ghana as editor of the African Review. She read her
poem ³On the Pulse of Morning² at the inauguration of President Clinton in 1993. Her five
autobiographical volumes have been well-received, beginning with I Know Why the Caged
Bird Sings (1970).
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