Copyright © 1969 by Maya Angelou
Copyright renewed © 1997 by Maya Angelou

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Originally published in 1969 by Random House, Inc.

The title, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, is from the poem “Sympathy,” by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Angelou, Maya.
  I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou.
   p. cm.
  Originally published: C1969.
1. Angelou, Maya—Childhood and youth.
2. Angelou, Maya—Homes and haunts—Arkansas.
3. Authors, American—20th century—Biography.
4. African American women authors—Biography.
5. Entertainers—United States—Biography. 6. African
American families—Arkansas. 7. Arkansas—Social life
and customs. I. Title.
PS3551.N464 Z466 2002
818′.5409—dc21    2001041914
[B]

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