Maya Angelou
A inspiring writer
Contributions
Maya Angelou is famous for her writing and mostly her poetry. She loved to write about herself and her own life. Her most famous book is called I Know Why the caged bird sings. Maya Angelou died when she was writing a new book. But she also had many other jobs but she is famous for writing and poems.
Biographical
Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928, in Missouri. Her parents gave her the name marguerite but when she got older she changed her name to Maya, like what her brother used to call her.
Did you know that when Maya was a little girl she moved from living with her grandma and mom to living with her father and sometimes had no home at all? And when living with her mom when she was seven she was sexually abused by her
mothers
boyfriend.And after they went to a court for about 2 weeks of
court
the man was killed. And after that, she did not speak again. everyone in her family tried to get her to speak again but they could not it was like she built a stone wall all around her. Mayaangelou
started talking again at 12 years oldCharacter Traits
Maya Angelou usually wrote truthful stories about her life. Maya wrote about 12 books and 13 poems. She was in the middle of writing a new book when she died. Maya Angelou died on may 28 2014.