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Also by Tavis Smiley:

50 for Your Future, April 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
My Journey with Maya, April 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Death of a King, September 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
The Rich And The Rest Of Us, April 2012
Paperback / e-Book
Fail Up, May 2011
Hardcover
Accountable, February 2009
Hardcover
The Covenant with Black America, January 2006
Paperback (reprint)

MY JOURNEY WITH MAYA
By: Tavis Smiley

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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