Writer
April
4, 1928 – May 28, 2014
Credits:
Including titles with Steven Spielberg, Langston Hughes and Mary Ellen Mark:
Angelina of Italy (2004); Izak of Lapland (2004); Mikale of Hawaii (2004); Renee Marie of France (2004); Cedric of Jamaica (2005); Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie (1971); Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well (1975); And Still I Rise (1978); Now Sheba Sings the Song (1987); I Shall Not Be Moved (1990); On the Pulse of Morning (1993); Soul Looks Back in Wonder (1993); The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (1994); The Complete Collected Poems (1994); Maya Angelou: Poems (1994); Phenomenal Woman (1995); A Brave and Startling Truth (1995); Black Pearls (1998); Van Gogh's Ear (2005); Amazing Peace (2005); Celebrations (2006); Poetry for Young People (2007); Love's Exquisite Freedom (2011); Mrs. Flowers (1986); Life Doesn't Frighten Me (1993); My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me (1994); Kofi and His Magic (1996); I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969); Gather Together in My Name (1974); Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976); The Heart of a Woman (1981); All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986); A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002); Mom & Me & Mom (2013); Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? (1983); Letter to My Daughter (1987); Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now (1993); Even the Stars Look Lonesome (1996); The Voyage of the Amistad (1997); Making Magic in the World (1998); Amistad (1998); Mary Ellen Mark (1999); Graduation (2000); Hallelujah! The Welcome Table (2004); Mother (2006); Great Food, All Day Long (2010); His Day Is Done (2014); Rainbow in the Cloud (2014); Understanding Aspergers (2014); Strategies of Abundance (2014); The Weary Blues (1926); The Dream Keeper and Other Poems (1932); The Ways of White Folks (1934); Selected Poems (1959); Ask Your Mama (1961); Poems from Black Africa (1963); The Panther and the Lash (1967); Soul Looks Back in Wonder (1993); The Poems 1921-1940 (2001); The Poems: 1941-1950 (2001); The Poems: 1951-1967 (2001); Let America Be America Again (2004); Poetry for Young People (2006); Jim Crow's Last Stand (2007); The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (2022); Fine Clothes to the Jew: Poems of Black America in the 1920s (2023); An Earth Song (2023); I Am the Darker Brother (1968); Growing Up in the South (1991); Quartet Of Stories (1993); Writing Women's Lives (1994); The Little Big Book of California (2005); 40 Model Essays (2005); Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female (2006); What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self (2006); Made With Love: The Meals On Wheels Family Cookbook (2012); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World (2019).
