Maya Angelou

Are you unsure of where to start your online research? You'll find a biography, a photo, two bibliographies, and some links at Angelou's page at the Voices From the Gaps site.

An interesting way to see the scope of Angelou's work is to browse through the list of her citations at the Library of Congress. What did you find there that you didn't know before your visit?

If you're interested in the personal touch, you can click here to see what Angelou's signature looks like in a first edition of All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes.

Here is some information about a film that Angelou directed in 1998 called Down in the Delta. How might you make use of some of this information if you were to write about Angelou's life and work?

Would you like to expand your knowledge about this author's personal history? This is a chronology of recent events in her life from her official website.

If you'd like to put Angelou's work into a historical context, you will want to know something about the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. To get you started here's a good general introduction to segregation and Jim Crow from The Columbia Encyclopedia, as well as some related links.

How has Angelou interacted with other artists? Start your quest to find out with some information about her collaboration with the painter Jean-Paul Basquiat.

Here is Angelou's e-text "On the Pulse of Morning", a poem she read at Bill Clinton's first inauguration. She was the second poet to be so honored by a President of the United States. (The first pairing was Robert Frost and John F. Kennedy.)

Here's a speech she gave at Weber State University. It's the Distinguished Annie Clark Tanner Lecture at the 16th-annual Families Alive Conference, 1997.

This is an interview from Mother Jones magazine in which Angelou participates in a lively discussion about art and politics in the U.S.