My journey with Maya
By: Tavis Smiley with David Ritz
Contributors: Ritz, David, author
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780316341752
Subjects: American Authors; Friends and associates; Biography; African American women authors
Description: Tavis Smiley recounts the story of his friendship with Maya Angelou. Tavis Smiley and Maya Angelou met in 1986, when he was twenty-one and she was fifty-eight. For the next twenty-eight years, Angelou was a teacher and a maternal figure to Smiley, and they talked often of art, politics, history, music, religion, and race. In My Journey with Maya, Smiley beautifully recounts a friendship filled with conversation that began when he, a recent college graduate and a poor kid from a big family in the Midwest, accompanied the revered writer on a sojourn to Ghana.--Publisher's description.