"I know that not since the days of my childhood, when people inbooks were more real than the people one saw every day,have I found myself so moved."
William McPherson, The Washington Post Book World...
"Gather Together in My Name is part of a select body of literature that includes The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Claude Brown'sManchild in the Promised Land and Ernest J. Gaines'The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Maya Angelouregards the world and herself with intelligence and wit; she records the events of her life with style and grace."
The Boston Globe...
"This is a superb account by a great woman who has embraced adifficult destiny with rare intelligence andinfectious joie de vivre."
About the Author
Poet, writer, performer, teacher, and director Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas, and then went to San Francisco. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, beginning with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she has also written five poetry collections, including I Shall Not Be Moved and Shaker, Why Don’t You Sing?, as well as the celebrated poem “On the Pulse of Morning,” which she read at the inauguration of President William Jefferson Clinton.
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