Biographical:

Would you like to expand your knowledge about this author's personal history? This is a chronology of recent events in her life from her official website.

Bibliographical:

An interesting way to see the scope of Angelou's work is to browse through the list of her citations at the Library of Congress. Go to this search page and type “Maya Angelou” into the search box. Then click on “Author/Creator Browse” in the box below, and click “begin search.” What did you find there that you didn't know before your visit?

Here is Angelou's etext "On the Pulse of Morning," a poem she read at Bill Clinton's first inauguration. She was the second poet to be so honored by a President of the United States. (The first pairing was Robert Frost and John F. Kennedy.)

Here's a speech she gave at Weber State University. It's the Distinguished Annie Clark Tanner Lecture at the 16th-annual Families Alive Conference, 1997.

This is an interview from Mother Jones magazine in which Angelou participates in a lively discussion about art and politics in the U.S.

Cultural:

Here is information about a film that Angelou directed in 1998 called Down in the Delta. How might you make use of this information if you were to write about Angelou's life and work?

How has Angelou interacted with other artists? Start your quest to find out with some information about her collaboration with the painter Jean-Paul Basquiat.