![]() In 1958, she became a part of the Harlem Writers Guild in New York and played a queen in The Blacks, an off-Broadway production by French dramatist Jean Genet. In 1957, she recorded her first album, Calypso Lady. In the mid-1950s, she toured Europe with a production of the opera Porgy and Bess. At the age of 16, she became not only the first black streetcar conductor in San Francisco but the first woman conductor. ![]() Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson on Apin Saint Louis, Missouri. Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 36412 KB). Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in compassion and fortitude: how she was brought up by her indomitable grandmother in segregated Arkansas, taken in at thirteen by her more worldly and less religious mother, and grew to be an awkward, six-foot-tall teenager whose first experience of loveless sex paradoxically left her with her greatest gift, a son. Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight. Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning. ![]()
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