Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou
By: Bradley Humphrey

My biography is about a famous author and poet named Maya Angelou. She was born on April 4th, 1928 in St. Louis Missouri. Maya Angelou is still living today. She has been called America’s most visible black female autobiographer.   Maya Angelou is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focuses on her childhood and her early adulthood experiences.
The first 17 years of Angelou's life are documented in her first autobiography. When Angelou was three, and her brother four, their parents calamitous marriage ended. Their father sent them to Stamps, Arkansas alone, by train, to live with his mother, Annie Henderson. Henderson prospered financially during the great depression and World War 2 because the general store she owned sold needed basic commodities and because she made wise and honest investments. Four years later, the children's father came to Stamps without warning and returned them to their mother's care in St. Louis. At age eight, while living with her mother, Angelou was sexually abused and raped by her mother's boyfriend, Mr. Freeman. She confessed it to her brother, who told the rest of their family. Freeman was found guilty, but was jailed for one day. Four days after his release, he was found kicked to death, probably by Angelou's uncles. Shortly after Freeman's murder, Angelou and her brother were sent back to their grandmother once again.
Williams Shakespeare had a major influence oh Maya Angelou’s writings. Some of her writings were I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The Heart of a Woman, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas, Gather Together in My Name. She also had a volume of poetry to, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie.
I hope you enjoyed my biography of amazing poet and author named Maya Angelou. She was a great woman and still is. Her name will live on forever.
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