List of Maya Angelou works

This is a list of autobiographies, plays, poetry, and teleplays by American poet Maya Angelou.

Autobiographies

All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

Maya Angelou[1]
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-375-50789-2
  • Gather Together in My Name (1974). New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-394-48692-5
  • Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976). New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-679-45777-0
  • The Heart of a Woman (1981). New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-8129-8032-5
  • All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986). New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-679-73404-8
  • A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002). New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-375-50747-2
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou (2004). New York: Modern Library. ISBN 978-0-679-64325-8[2][3]
  • Mom & Me & Mom (2013). New York: Random House. ISBN 978-1-4000-6611-7

Poetry

Angelou reciting "On the Pulse of Morning" at Bill Clinton's presidential inauguration in 1993
Angelou with Tom Feelings, who illustrated Now Sheba Sings the Song (1987).

Personal essays

Cookbooks

Children's books

Plays

Film and television

  • Blacks, Blues, Black! (writer, producer and host – ten one-hour programs, National Education Television), 1968
  • Georgia, Georgia (writer for script and musical score), Sweden, 1972
  • All Day Long (writer/director), 1974
  • PBS documentaries (1975):
    • Who Cares About Kids & Kindred Spirits (KERA-TV, Dallas, Texas)
    • Maya Angelou: Rainbow in the Clouds (WTVS-TV, Detroit, Michigan)
    • To the Contrary (Maryland Public Television)
    • Tapestry and Circles
  • Assignment America (six one-half hour programs), 1975
  • Part One: The Legacy; Part Two: The Inheritors (writer and host), 1976
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (writer for script and musical score), 1979
  • Sister, Sister (writer), 20th Century Fox Television, 1982
  • Brewster Place (writer), ABC, 1990
  • Down in the Delta (director), Miramax Films, 1998
  • The Black Candle (poetry, narration), Starz, 2012

Plays and films acted in (partial list)

Recordings

Spoken-word albums

  • The Poetry of Maya Angelou, GWP Records, 1969
  • Women in Business, 1981
  • On the Pulse of Morning, Random House Audio, 1993[15]
  • A Song Flung Up to Heaven, Random House Audio, 2002[15]

Radio

References

  1. McPherson, Dolly A. (1990). Order Out of Chaos: The Autobiographical Works of Maya Angelou. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. pp. 10–11. ISBN 978-0-8204-1139-2.
  2. Maya Angelou (2010). I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-47772-9. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
  3. Maya Angelou (2012). The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou (illustrated ed.). Random House Publishing Group. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-307-43205-6. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
  4. Moyer, Homer E. (2003). The R.A.T. Real-World Aptitude Test: Preparing Yourself for Leaving Home. Sterling, Virginia: Capital Books. p. 297. ISBN 978-1-931868-42-6.
  5. Brown, Avonie (1997-01-04). "Maya Angelou: The Phenomenal Woman Rises Again". New York Amsterdam News. Vol. 88, no. 1. p. 2.
  6. A poem from this collection, "My Life Has Turned to Blue", was made into the title track of Nancy Wilson's album, Turned to Blue, in 2006.
  7. 7.0 7.1 Waldron, Clarence (2006-12-25). "Maya Angelou: On Christmas, Dave Chappelle and What Inspires Her". Jet. No. 110. p. 29. Retrieved 2011-10-04.
  8. Angelou, Maya. "On the Pulse of Morning". Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library. Archived from the original on 11 February 2011. Retrieved 2007-05-28.
  9. Long, Richard (November 2005). "Maya Angelou". Smithsonian. Vol. 36, no. 8. p. 84.
  10. Vena, Jocelyn (2009-07-07). "Maya Angelou's Poem about Michael Jackson: 'We Had Him'". MTV. Archived from the original on 2010-04-01. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
  11. "Maya Angelou's Elegy For Michael Jackson". HuffPost. 2009-08-12. Retrieved 2023-06-21.
  12. Eby, Margaret (12 December 2013). "Maya Angelou pens poem for Nelson Mandela: 'His Day is Done'". New York Daily News. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
  13. Wolf, Matt (12 March 2014). "The National Theatre's Global Flair". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
  14. 14.0 14.1 14.2 Letkemann, Jessica (28 May 2014). "Maya Angelou's Life in Music: Ashford & Simpson Collab, Calypso Album & More". Billboard. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
  15. 15.0 15.1 Maughan, Shannon (2003-03-03). "Grammy Gold". Publishers Weekly. Vol. 250, no. 9. p. 38.
  16. Waggoner, Martha (2006-09-13). "Maya Angelou to Host Show on XM Radio". Fox News. Retrieved 2007-09-28.