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A World-Changing Writer Makes Her Debut

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Before she was a bestselling author, beloved teacher, and Oprah mainstay, Maya Angelou was an adventurous little girl named Marguerite Johnson who was obsessed with books and wanted to become a poet someday.   In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the first of seven autobiographies (seven!) she wrote to capture her fascinating life, Angelou recounts coming of age as a Black girl in the Jim Crow South and the move to California that would change th…
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BOOK RIOT broke the news on Friday, June 5, 2026.
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