Maya Angelou Autobiographies

Name: Maya Angelou Autobiographies - Penguin Random House South Africa
SKU: 9781787532014
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Maya Angelou, Full Cast, Indie Gjesdal, Pippa Bennett-Warner

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Six BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of Maya Angelou's evocative, extraordinary memoirs, starring Adjoa Andoh and Pippa Bennett-Warner

The books that make up the life and times of Maya Angelou are among the most beautiful and haunting pieces of autobiography ever written. Joyous, direct and searingly honest, they run the gamut from life-affirming to tragic, and back again.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings charts Maya's childhood in the Deep South in the 1930s; while Gather Together In My Name recounts her descent into prostitution and narcotics. Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas sees her forging a career in showbusiness, and in The Heart of a Woman, she moves to New York and becomes involved in civil rights....

About the Author

Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and The Heart of a Woman, she wrote numerous volumes of poetry, among them Phenomenal Woman, And Still I Rise, On the Pulse of Morning, and Mother. Maya Angelou died in 2014.

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Indie Gjesdal

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Pippa Bennett-Warner

Pippa Bennett-Warner is a classically trained and established theater actress who has appeared at the National Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, and the Royal Court Theatre. Pippa’s film and television credits include Wakefield, Sick Note, The Smoke, The Secrets, The Trials of Jimmy Rose, and River.