I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou – archive, 1 April 1984

Paul Bailey on the inspirational autobiography of a woman who survived rape and racism in the American south

Paul Bailey is a British novelist and critic. Maya Angelou wrote her first book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, aged 40. The paperback of the book was on the New York Times bestseller list for two years.

If you want to know what it was like to live at the bottom of the heap before, during and after the American Depression, this exceptional book will tell you.

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