Ms. Angelou, the memoirist and poet whose landmark book of 1969, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” was among the first autobiographies by a 20th-century black woman to reach a wide general readership, died on Wednesday.
By MARGALIT FOX, New York Times
Wed, 05/28/2014 - 6:39am
Ms. Angelou, the memoirist and poet whose landmark book of 1969, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” was among the first autobiographies by a 20th-century black woman to reach a wide general readership, died on Wednesday.