I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou's childhood in the segregated South and St Louis, through trauma to self-possession.
- Type
- Book
- Released
- 1969
- Author
- Maya Angelou
- Critics' average
- 82/100 across 1 published score
Genres
Memoir · Coming-of-age memoir · Non-fiction
What it feels like
Coming of age · Race & the legacy of slavery · Identity & selfhood · Melancholic · Uplifting