Robert Loomis, a blue-chip editor of old-fashioned sense and persistence who in more than 50 years at Random House encouraged, prodded and befriended William Styron, Maya Angelou, Calvin Trillin ...

Maya Angelou's books, and her life itself, became a kind of rallying cry, an affirmation. Maya Angelou, a daughter of the South, a voice for us all - Los Angeles Times ...

In an excerpt from American Masters - Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, Maya Angelou, Lou Gossett Jr., and Guy Johnson speak about James Baldwin.

Poet, memoirist and performer Maya Angelou has died at age 86, Wake Forest University announced Wednesday. The multi-talented artist was also a celebrated civil rights advocate and pioneer.

This month, Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, codirected and coproduced by Rita Coburn Whack and Bob Hercules, and Raoul Peck’s acclaimed I Am Not Your Negro arrive intent on reminding audiences ...

Maya Angelou had spent a lot of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, which is about 25 miles from Hope, where I was born. My grandfather had a little grocery store in a predominantly African ...

Maya’s book editor Robert Loomis revealed that she would rent a hotel room and hibernate to write. All she would have was a Bible, thesaurus, playing cards and hard liquor to finish her work. 7.

Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis to Bailey Johnson, a dietitian, and Vivian Johnson, a card dealer and boardinghouse proprietor.

When she was 8 years old, Maya Angelou stopped speaking. She silenced her voice because she thought her voice had killed a man. For almost five years, she spoke to no one but her beloved brother ...

After King’s assassination, with encouragement by the author James Baldwin, Angelou penned I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, her first of seven autobiographies.