num_pages: 309
description: Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope and joy, achievement and celebration. In this first volume of her autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evoker her childhood with her grandmother in the American South of the 1930s. She learns the power of the white folks at the other end of town and suffers the terrible trauma of rape by her mother's lover.
language: English
title: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
titlecomplete: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
characters: Uncle Willie, Mr. Freeman (I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings), Maya Angelou, Bailey Johnson, Bailey Johnson Jr., Annie "Momma" Henderson, Vivian Baxter
genres: Classics, Autobiography, Feminism, Race, African American, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Poetry, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 513634
places: Arkansas, Stamps, Arkansas, California, San Francisco, California, The United States of America
series: Maya Angelou's Autobiography
awards: awardedAt: 31564800000
name: Coretta Scott King Book Award
category: Author Honor
publisher: Virago Press