If you could get her to write a book...’” That book became I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which recently celebrated its 50th birthday. In the memoir, Angelou (born Marguerite Johnson ...

One of the most iconic poems in American literature ... she had gained national acclaim with her autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Her poetry, however, elevated her status even ...

authored the international bestseller I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, worked alongside Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, and recited one of her poems at a US presidential inauguration.