num_pages: 288
description: The first of seven autobiographical volumes, evoking the author's childhood with her grandmother in the American South of the thirties, and recounting her experience of discrimination as a black, and the terrible trauma of rape by one of her mother's boyfriends. First published in 1969.
language: English
title: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
titlecomplete: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
characters: Bailey Johnson, Maya Angelou, Uncle Willie, Bailey Johnson Jr., Mr. Freeman (I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings), Vivian Baxter, Annie "Momma" Henderson
genres: Biography, Poetry, Memoir, Nonfiction, Classics, Autobiography, Feminism, Biography Memoir, Race, African American
ratings_count: 513712
places: The United States of America, San Francisco, California, California, Arkansas, Stamps, Arkansas
series: Maya Angelou's Autobiography
awards: awardedAt: 31564800000
name: Coretta Scott King Book Award
category: Author Honor
publisher: Random House