Maya Angelou
Is Maya Angelou Dead?
Maya Angelou, famous Pulitzer prize nominated author and poet was taken to the hospital on Saturday evening. Rumors are abound in Twitter about the apparent death of Maya Angelou.
Maya Angelou, aged 81, was in Los Angeles to be honored at the BraveHeart Awards. BraveHeart awards is for women who choose to be inspiration in action. The hospitalization of Maya Angelou was first reported by TMZ.com, and while there are limited details at this point, it is already sad that such a great woman is having to deal with something health related. Maya Angelou is by far one of the greatest poets of our time, and it has been a treat to see her perform many times.
Dr. Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928) is a famous American autobiographer and poet. She has also become best-selling author, actress, and above everything else a civil rights activist in her lifetime. She isn’t known just as an influential woman, but one of the most heralded voices of the last few generations.
Angelou worked with Dr. Martin Luther King and served as the Northern Coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In a tragic coincidence, King was assassinated on her birthday. Soon after that, she worked with novelist friend James Baldwin to write what would later become known as I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
She was called “America’s most visible black female autobiographer” by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. Maya Angelou is best known for her series of six autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adulthood experiences.
Maya Angelou’s first and probably best-known autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), focuses on the first seventeen years of her life. It brought her international recognition, and was nominated for a National Book Award.
Among some of the most notable awards she has received over the years is a Pulitzer Prize nomination for a Georgia, Georgia that she wrote the screenplay and composed the score for back in 1972. She acted in Roots and Poetic Justice, and has narrated more films and documentaries than can be mentioned. Angelou also has a Presidential Medal of the Arts, a Lincoln Medal, and three Grammy Awards to her name.
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