Maya Angelou

Black writers play a major role in our literature today. Maya Angelou’s work began a new era for blacks everywhere. She wrote an autobiography called I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. This book was written in the time period during the depression, just before the war. She has also written poems, plays, musicals, and other novels. Through I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, one can see her troubles and success growing up …

…book organized chronologically, to make it as a story. Everything fits together and one sees what not only her life was like, but all the people around her. Her racial and sexual differences fit together in a way that leaves the reader with a sense of complete understanding. Any reader who reads this book will be in complete satisfaction with how real she portrays everything, and how she makes one seem part of the story.