Bookclub - Maya Angelou (2002)
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The poet and writer speaks to James Naughtie and a studio audience about her groundbreaking autobiography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.
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After Martin Luther King's assassination, it's James Baldwin that helps Maya out of her devastation. Maya goes onto produce a big television documentary series and then gets a call from a publisher at Random House inviting her to write an autobiography. She refuses repeatedly, until the publisher...
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