by Dr Maya Angelou (Author)
Format: Hardback 320 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
ISBN: 9780349005997
Published: 31 Mar 2015

Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy,achievement and celebration.

In this first volume of her six books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s. She learns the power of the white folks at the other end of town and suffers the terrible trauma of rape by her mother's lover.

Maya Angelou's Autobiography Series Order. Below is the recommended reading order.
1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Book
2. Gather Together in My Name Book
3. Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas Book
4. The Heart of a Woman Book
5. All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes Book
6. A Song Flung Up to Heaven Book
7. Mom & Me & Mom Book