Full Coverage: Acclaimed poet Maya Angelou dies at 86
Maya Angelou, the poet, actress and prolific memoirist, whose most celebrated work, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” established her as a clear-eyed interpreter of the black experience, has died. She was 86.
Her death Wednesday in Winston-Salem, N.C., was announced by her son, Guy B. Johnson. He did not disclose the cause of death, but Angelou had been in poor health in recent years.
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Maya Angelou was a diva of American culture: an actress, singer, dancer and film director as well as an essayist and Pulitzer-Prize-nominated poet, whose mainstream magnetism led her to write verses for Hallmark and recite one of her poems at the 1993 inauguration of President Clinton.
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In March 1970, Maya Angelou sat down with Studs Terkel for a radio interview about her memoir “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.”
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The pioneering, multi-talented artist and civil rights advocate Maya Angelou, who died Wednesday at age 86, is best known as a prolific poet and memoirist.
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Maya Angelou’s books, and her life itself, became a kind of rallying cry, an affirmation.
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Maya Angelou, poet and author of the memoir “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” touched many with her words and life.
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Celebrities honor, remember and reflect on her life with Twitter messages.
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Poet, memoirist and performer Maya Angelou has died at age 86, Wake Forest University announced Wednesday.
