And added, "Maya Angelou - who was utterly amazing ... reached No. 12 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list. That's foreign territory for most poetry. Even if her poems didn't receive much ...

Maya Angelou, who died Wednesday ... Both a prolific poet and memorist, Angelou penned more than two dozens books and collections throughout her life (including two cookbooks).

Distinctly referred to as “a redwood tree, with deep roots in American culture,” Dr. Maya Angelou (April 4, 1928-May 28, 2014) led a prolific life. As a singer, dancer, activist, poet and ...

Poet, performer and political activist Maya Angelou has died after a long illness ... "When we think of her, we often think about her books, of course, and her poems," he says.

Poet and memoirist Maya Angelou's death at 86 on May 28 ... Clinton to actress Anjelica Huston. Now the first of Angelou's 36 books, her 1969 memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, soars to ...

Watch for: “On the Pulse of Morning” by Maya Angelou. New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993. National Poetry Month was established in April 1996 to highlight the achievements of American poets ...

The book world is finally honoring Maya Angelou. The poet and author of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” will be this year’s recipient of the Literarian Award, an honorary National Book ...

Maya Angelou, who died in May 2014, became one of those figures (à la Mark Twain or Abraham Lincoln) who ended up with more of other people’s words attributed to her than words of her own.

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) --Maya Angelou, a modern Renaissance woman ... She mastered several languages and published not just poetry, but advice books, cookbooks and children's stories.

The author had heart problems, but was finishing a new book. May 28, 2014 -- Famed poet and author Maya Angelou died this morning in North Carolina. She was 86. "She'd been very frail and had ...

Maya Angelou, a child of the Jim Crow South ... directed for film and television and wrote more than 30 books, including poetry, essays and, responding to the public's appetite for her life ...

Poet and author Maya Angelou has died at the age of 86 ... "I realize that if I had taught before I had written a book I might never have written a book. I love to teach. I am a teacher." ...