![]() It's Angelou's eighth book to unravel her often painful and tumultuous life, including the 1969 National Book Award winner "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," chronicling her rape as a girl that left her mute for five years.Īngelou lost her beloved older brother Bailey in 2000, after his slide into drugs, and her mom in 1991, at age 79 or 85, depending on who's doing the counting, joked Angelou in a recent telephone interview from her home in Winston-Salem, N.C., where she has lived part-time for more than 30 years while on the faculty of Wake Forest University. Her mom and Annie are familiar to admirers of the poet and spinner of autobiographical fiction. The fierce and fun Vivian was Angelou's abandoner and, later, her most loyal protector. Urgent: Is Obamacare Hurting Your Wallet? Vote in Poll and returned her at age 13, according to The Associated Press. Henderson took Angelou in when she was 3 in a tiny, segregated Stamps, Ark. Louis, and Henderson, refined believer in southern etiquette, are both long gone but figure big in Angelou's legendary life. Renowned author Maya Angelou honors her mother and grandmother in her upcoming literary memoir, "Mom & Me & Mom," which is a sweet ode to "Lady," also known as Vivian Baxter, her mother and "Momma," her paternal grandmother, Annie Henderson.īaxter, rough-and-tumble poor from St. ![]()
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