His Day Is Done (3 page)

Poet, writer, performer, teacher, and director M
AYA
A
NGELOU
was raised in Stamps, Arkansas, and then went to San Francisco. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, beginning with
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
, she has also written five poetry collections, including
I Shall Not Be Moved
and
Shaker, Why Don’t You Sing?
, and two cookbooks,
Hallelujah! The Welcome Table
and
Great Food, All Day Long
, as well as the celebrated poem “On the Pulse of Morning,” which she read at the inauguration of President William Jefferson Clinton, and “A Brave and Startling Truth,” written at the request of the United Nations and read at its fiftieth anniversary. She lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.