Maya Angelou

It is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way home, leaving behind her beloved son Guy to finish university in Ghana. America is pulsing with the challenge of change, the civil rights movement is in full swing and that's where Maya Angelou wants to be, working alongside her friends Malcolm X and Martin Luther King.

In this marvellous accout Maya Angelou provides, with her customary wisdom, compassion and wit, a first-hand record of an extraordinarily exciting and tragic political period. She writes too of 'Jimmy' Baldwin, Eldridge Cleaver and of friends and family, and finishes with the beginnings of her career as one of America's most impressive writers of memoir.

Paperback
212 pages
Virago
ISBN: 1860499554