I Know Why The Caged Bird SingsMaya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman, she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement, and celebration. In this first volume of her six books of autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the