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Maya Angelou — I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

1969 autobiography centered on Angelou's childhood in Stamps, Arkansas.

The first nonfiction bestseller by a Black woman in the modern era. A staple of US high-school curricula and a model for the modern Black memoir tradition.

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