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Tony Nominee Maya Angelou, America's Poet Laureate & Author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Dies at 86 by Ryan McPhee

America's Poet Laureate Maya Angelou passed away on May 28 in her Winston-Salem, North Carolina home. She was 86. The New York Times reports that her death was confirmed by Angelou’s literary agent, Helen Brann. While Angelou’s most well known work may be I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, her first of seven autobiographies, she was also a celebrated performer. She was a student of modern dance under…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:30am on May 28, 2014 ☆ ⚑

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