Title: My journey with Maya
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.
Subjects: American Authors, Friends and associates, Biography, African American women authors, Authors, american, African american authors, Authors, biography, Women authors, Friendship, nyt:culture=2015-05-10, New York Times bestseller
People: Tavis Smiley (1964-), Maya Angelou
Time periods: 20th century