About the Author
Maya Angelou has written five volumes of autobiography, including the bestselling I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and many collections of poetry, as well as "On the Pulse of Morning," the poem she read at the inauguration of President William Jefferson Clinton in 1993. All of her poems have been gathered together in The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou is currently Reynolds Professor at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
From the Hardcover edition.