Quill Award
1 appearances
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Edition 2 (2006) Winner
Maya Angelou
マヤ・エンジェルー
Maya Angelou
Aliases:
Marguerite Annie Johnson / Rita
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1928-04-04 （St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.）
- Died
- 2014-05-28 （Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.） age 86
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Baptist
- Residence History
- Stamps, Arkansas → Oakland, California → New York City → Cairo, Egypt → Accra, Ghana → Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Career
- Occupations
- Writer, Memoirist, Poet, Essayist, Civil rights activist, Dancer, Actor, Director
- Active Years
- 1951-2014
- Affiliations
- Wake Forest University, Harlem Writers Guild
- Memberships
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Mount Zion Baptist Church
- Influenced By
- Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe
- Influenced
- Oprah Winfrey, Kanye West
- Nominations
- Tony Award nomination (Look Away), Pulitzer Prize nomination (Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California Labor School | — | General Education | — | 1940年代 | United States |
California Labor School
General Education
Period:
1940年代
Country:
United States
No degree
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Presidential Medal of Freedom | — | — | President of the United States | 受賞 |
| 2000 | National Medal of Arts | — | — | National Endowment for the Arts | 受賞 |
| 1994 | Spingarn Medal | — | — | NAACP | 受賞 |
Presidential Medal of Freedom
2011
Organization:
President of the United States
Result:
受賞
National Medal of Arts
2000
Organization:
National Endowment for the Arts
Result:
受賞
Spingarn Medal
1994
Organization:
NAACP
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1969 Autobiography 289 pagesHer life up to age 17, including experiences with rape and racism.
RacismIdentityFamilyTrauma
Translations
- Translated into Japanese
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- ConversationalMetaphoricalOral traditionBlues rhythm
- Recurring Motifs
- Caged birdSurvivalResilienceBlack culture
Health
-
Respiratory failure晩年Continued writing despite pain
Legacy
Spokesperson for Black people and women; works widely taught.
Archives
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
In Popular Culture
- Depicted on U.S. quarter
Quotes
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All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith.
Source: Interview -
The way I deal with any pain is to admit it – let it come.
Source: BBC Interview (1989)
Trivia
- First Black female streetcar conductor in San Francisco
- First screenplay by a Black woman: Georgia, Georgia