Maya began to speak again at 13, when she and her brother rejoined their mother in San Francisco. 1969: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is an autobiography describing the young and early years of Maya Angelou. She fell silent and did not speak for five years. When she later heard the news that an uncle had killed her attacker, she felt that her words had killed the man. Too ashamed to tell any of the adults in her life, she confided in her brother. Unable to pronounce her name because of a stutter, Bailey called her “My” for “My sister.” A few years later, when he read a book about the Maya Indians, he began to call her “Maya,” and the name stuck.Īt age seven, while visiting her mother in Chicago, she was sexually molested by her mother’s boyfriend. She enjoyed a close relationship with her brother. She credits her grandmother and her extended family with instilling in her the values that informed her later life and career. In Stamps, the young girl experienced the racial discrimination that was the legally enforced way of life in the American South, but she also absorbed the deep religious faith and old-fashioned courtesy of traditional African American life. Her parents divorced when she was only three and she essencewas sent with her brother Bailey to live with their grandmother in the small town of Stamps, Arkansas.
Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson in St. Maya Angelou in San Francisco, at the time of the publication of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1970.
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