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For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers.Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning.
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Earnest, character-led, contemplative and spare.
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Maya Angelou
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 166
- Publisher
- Virago Press Ltd, Little, Brown Book Group Limited, Munhak Tongne
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English, Korean
- ISBN
- 9788954609876
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Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson) was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. She became a poet and writer after a series of occupations as a young adult, including fry cook, prostitute, nightclub dancer and performer, cast member of the opera Porgy and Bess, coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and journalist in Egypt and Ghana during the decolonization of Africa. She was an actor, writer, director
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