Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780553380057ISBN:0553380052
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 304 p. Audience: General/trade. Read Once, overall good condition read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780553251999ISBN:0553251996
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. F-very minor spine creasing. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 256 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780553251999ISBN:0553251996
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Free upgrade to First Class mail (for one book). Also listing others by same author. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 256 p. Audience: General/trade. Near fine condition. Smooth and square cover with dogear on back. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780553251999ISBN:0553251996
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, light shelf wear to cover, light creases on spine, light aging, stk #2344s7. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 256 p. Audience: Young adult. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780553251999ISBN:0553251996
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. No flaws on this title. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 256 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
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"As described in her third autobiography, Angelou married Greek sailor Tosh Angelos in 1952; the marriage ended in divorce after three years. Up to that point, she called herself "Marguerite Johnson", or "Rita", but changed her professional name to "Maya Angelou" when her managers at San Francisco nightclub The Purple Onion strongly suggested that she adopt a "more theatrical" name that captured the feel of her Calypso dance performances. In the late 1950s, she joined the Harlem Writers Guild, where she met a number of important African American authors, including her friend and mentor James Baldwin. After hearing civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak for the first time in 1960, she was inspired to join the Civil Rights movement. She organized several benefits for him, and he named her Northern Coordinator of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. She toured Europe with a production of the opera Porgy and Bess in 1954-1955, studied modern dance with Martha Graham, danced with choreographer Alvin Ailey on television variety shows, and recorded her first record album, Miss Calypso, in 1957. She co-created a dance team, "Al and Rita", with Ailey, who combined elements of modern dance, ballet, and West African tribal dancing. One of the themes of this book was the conflict she felt between her desire to be a good mother and a successful performer, a situation "very familiar to mothers with careers". Maya Angelou has lived an amazingly multi-faceted life."
"I swear, this woman can write! I get as engrossed in the story of her life as I would with a novel. This portion of her story covers the beginnings of her rise to fame."
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