Maya Angelou: How I Write

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The poet, whose memoir of her mother is “Mom & Me & Mom, talks about why she wears head ties when she writes, and why she makes Hallmark greeting cards.

Published Apr. 10 2013 4:45AM EDT

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Tell me about the dinner party at which the writer James Baldwin and the cartoonist Jules Feiffer first encouraged you to write your first memoir, I

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Maya Angelou: How I Write

The poet, whose memoir of her mother is “Mom & Me & Mom, talks about why she wears head ties when she writes, and why she makes Hallmark greeting cards.

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Noah Charney