Acknowledgments viiList of Illustrations viii1 "There is Always an Engine, Maya" 12 St. Louis and Fear 133 Recovery in Arkansas 234 More Changes 355 Mothering 446 Performing 577 Writing 698 In Africa 839 Real-life Politics 9410 Angelou as Autobiographer 10411 "'Testing the Ledge': Screenplays and Directing" 11612 Mrs. Paul Du Feu 12813 Returning to the South 13914 "On the Pulse of Morning" 14915 The Prestige Years 16116 The Last Years 168Afterword 175Notes for Maya Angelou, a Life 176Bibliography 189Index (Angelou) 195
Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature emerita at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in the United States. She has published over 75 books, including Hemingway's Wars: The Public and Private Battles and The Routledge Introduction to American Modernism.