NPR stories about Maya Angelou
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Three Books To Quell Your Quarter-Life Crisis
December 23, 2010 As recent college grads, everything seems possible ... but nothing feels certain. Hannah Levintova recommends three works that will help pull you out of your twentysomething rut.
Food
Maya Angelou's Cooking Advice: Ignore The Rules
December 16, 2010 In her new cookbook, the poet says too much rushing around and too many rules are crushing the practice of good cooking. Eating good food, she says, should be a time to enlighten the spirit.
Books
Maya Angelou on Wisdom, Pride and Independence
July 4, 2007 Bestselling author, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou is considered to be among the greatest writers alive today. In this week's Wisdom Watch, Angelou talks — and sings — about why she feels proud to be an American woman of color. Her latest book is A Song Flung Up to Heaven, the final volume of her memoirs.
Food
'The Welcome Table': Recipes from Maya Angelou
October 26, 2005 Author and poet Maya Angelou talks about her latest work, a book of recipes and recollections she's put together that combine her love of cooking and good food with her deeper love of the people she shares her table with.
More Books

Author Interviews
A Portrait Of The Cartoonist And Her Mother
Cartoonist Alison Bechdel has a new memoir about her complicated relationship with her mother.

Author Interviews
A Quest For Roots Uncovers Ordinary People
Lawrence Jackson went on a quest to find his late grandfather's home in Virginia.




