A selective bibliography of open access articles, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
main page | African American writers | authors, alphabetical | Harlem Renaissance
Challener, Daniel D. A review of Stories of Resilience in Childhood: The Narratives of Maya Angelou, Maxine Hong Kingston, Richard Rodriguez, John Edgar Wideman, and Tobias Wolff. (Garland, 1997). Reviewed by Lynn Z. Bloom in MELUS, Fall-Winter, 2000
Walker, Pierre A. "Racial protest, identity, words, and form in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" in College Literature, Oct 1995
An extended, introductory article on Maya Angelou's career, includes list of works and a secondary reading list, from the Poetry Foundation
A biography of Maya Angelou, with links to her poems "Alone," and "Still I Rise." From the Academy of American Poets
Former President Bill Clinton's list of favorite books, starting with Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. From CBS News, 11/21/03
A web site on Efua Sutherland, the Ghanaian teacher and writer to whom Maya Angelou dedicated her 1986 book All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes From The Writing Company
A profile of Maya Angelou from Voices From the Gaps, Women Writers of Color, a project at the Univ. of Minnesota
Introduction to Maya Angelou for high school students, from Houghton Mifflin
A very brief biography of Maya Angelou from the Black Collegian Online
A teacher's guide, "How the African-American Storyteller Impacts the Black Family and Society," by Barbara P. Moss. From the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
"Amazing Grace," a lesson plan for teaching Maya Angelou by Ruth M. Wilson, from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
Teaching Autobiography, biography, and fiction using I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, a lesson plan by Anna K. Bartow, from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
"Black Birds Of Promise Who Defy The Odds Of Gods And Sing Their Songs," by Celeste Y. Davis, a lesson plan from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
"A Middle School Approach to Black Literature: An Introduction to Dunbar, Johnson, Hughes, and Angelou," by Ivory Erkerd, Angelou from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
Angelou, Maya. An undated interview with David Frost from New Sun newspaper
Angelou, Maya. An interview with Maya Angelou from Mother Jones magazine, 1995, interviewed by Ken Kelley
Angelou, Maya. A conversation with Maya Angelou and Eleanor Holmes Norton, interview originally in Essence, August, 1998 by Lisa Funderberg
Angelou, Maya. The text of "Still We Rise," a poem by Maya Angelou read at the Million Man March. From Chicken Bones: A Journal for Literary and Artistic African American Themes
An extensive secondary bibliography for Maya Angelou from the Bibliography Committee of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature, briefly annotated
1998-2008 by Donna Jan Pridmore