My Journey With Maya (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Little, Brown
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2015
Authors:	Tavis Smiley
Dimensions:	209 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-0-316-34175-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	0-316-34175-4
Barcode:	9780316341752

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