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Little Brown & Company
April 2015
On Sale: April 7, 2015
224 pages ISBN: 0316341754 EAN: 9780316341752 Kindle: B00NERQSPC Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
Tavis Smiley recounts the story of his friendship with Maya
Angelou Tavis Smiley and Maya Angelou met in 1986, when he was
twenty-one and she was fifty-eight. For the next
twenty-eight years, Angelou was a teacher and a maternal
figure to Smiley, and they talked often of art, politics,
history, music, religion, and race. In My Journey with Maya, Smiley beautifully recounts a
friendship filled with conversation that began when he, a
recent college graduate and a poor kid from a big family in
the Midwest, accompanied the revered writer on a sojourn to
Ghana. Smiley stumbled into a relationship with her that shaped his
future and affected the man he became. Like a mother to him,
she was generous, challenging, and inspirational--as she was
to so many. Here he shares his portrait of Angelou--a highly complex
individual who left an indelible imprint on American culture.
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