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Caged Bird Sings

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

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About Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) is the first of seven autobiographical volumes covering her childhood through adolescence — growing up in Stamps, Arkansas with her grandmother, her years in St. Louis, and her coming-of-age in San Francisco. It is one of the most celebrated memoirs in American literature and a foundational text of African American autobiography.

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