"Letter to My Daughter" is Maya Angelou's third book of essays. She had published several volumes of poetry, including "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie" (1971), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She had recited her poem, "On the Pulse of Morning", at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton in 1993, making her the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961. In 2009, when "Letter" was published, Angelou had published six out of her seven installments of her series of autobiographies. Her sixth autobiography, "A Song Flung Up to Heaven" (2002), was considered her final autobiography until she published her seventh autobiography, "Mom &amp; Me &amp; Mom", in 2013, at the age of 85.