“My mother was irresistible,” Maya Angelou says, but “irresistible” is also a word that many readers have applied to Angelou herself. She is a one-woman autobiography industry, as well as ...

Maya Angelou was only 3 years old when she and her brother were sent to live with their grandmother. She reunited with her mom 10 years later, beginning a complicated journey that would eventually ...

Maya Angelou has lived a life so expansive and extraordinary that, even after seven autobiographies, she still has more stories to tell. Her latest book, Mom & Me & Mom, explores her relationship ...

FILE - In this May 20, 2010 file photo, poet and author Maya Angelou smiles at a garden party at her home in Winston-Salem, N.C. Angelou's latest book, memoir "Mom & Me & Mom," is a sweet ode to ...

Dr. Maya Angelou’s newest book, Mom & Me & Mom, explores her complicated relationship with her mother. Her latest memoir, released a month before Mother’s Day on April 2, tells the ...

May 11, 2006 — -- "I think of mother often," Maya Angelou told ABC News' Diane Sawyer. "I think of myself as mother. I think of men as mother -- some men. My son has mothered his son ...

Maya Angelou describes being raised by her grandmother after being abandoned by her mother at age 3. Her mother, Vivian Baxter, is the focus of Angelou's latest book, Mom & Me & Mom (Random House ...

Maya Angelou's son Guy Johnson claims Pearl Bailey refused to let his mother understudy her in Hello Dolly! Dave Quinn is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE. He has been working at the brand since 2016 ...

Before she sat down to write her first book, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou ... sharecropper family, Angelou had been a streetcar conductor, teen mom, a fry cook, a ...

Good Lord. If being embraced by a love this rich and deep wasn’t enough already, later in my young adult life I had the good fortune of calling Maya Angelou “Mother” as well. When we met I ...

"My mother was irresistible," Maya Angelou says, but "irresistible" is also a word that many readers have applied to Angelou herself. She is a one-woman autobiography industry, as well as a poet ...

In the melange of Maya Angelou’s 85 years is also daughter, of two women who deserved one with a good memory. So Angelou writes in her latest literary memoir, “Mom & Me & Mom,” a sweet ode ...