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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: A BBC Radio 4 Dramatisation
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by Maya Angelou


About this book

Titled after a stanza from Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem “Sympathy,” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the first of a series of seven autobiographical novels by African-American poet and writer Maya Angelou. Personally deeply involved and affected by the civil rights movement, the volume explores racism and identity in her early life.  

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was nominated for the National Book Award in 1970. However, due to its depiction of controversial subjects such as sexuality, lesbianism and rape, the use of the novel in classrooms has been frequently challenged.

First Edition Identification

Random House published the first edition of the novel in 1969. Markings for a first edition are characteristic of the publisher with the words "First Edition" clearly stated on the copyright page. The first issue also has a red-stained top edge.

Details

  • Title I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: A BBC Radio 4 Dramatisation
  • Author Maya Angelou
  • Binding Compact Disc
  • Pages 1
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • ISBN 9781787531635 / 1787531635
  • Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 4.9 x 5.6 x 0.4 in (12.45 x 14.22 x 1.02 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, including I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings and The Heart of a Woman, she wrote numerous volumes of poetry, among them Phenomenal Woman, And Still I Rise, On the Pulse of Morning, and Mother. Maya Angelou died in 2014.
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