Publishers Lunch
Award-winning author, renowned poet and civil rights
activist Maya Angelou,
86, died
at her home in Winston-Salem, NC early Wednesday morning. She had been in
failing health for some time, cancelling an awards appearance several days
earlier. "She'd been very frail and had heart problems, but she was going
strong, finishing a new book," Angelou's agent Helen Brann told ABC
News.
"I spoke to her yesterday. She was fine, as she always was. Her
spirit was indomitable." Angelou was the author of more than 30 books of
poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, most notably I
KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS (1969) and most recently MOM
AND ME AND MOM (2013). Last fall she was honored with the National Book Foundation's
Literarian Award.
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