Remembering Maya Angelou (8 images)

Poet and author Maya Angelou died May 28, 2014 at the age of 86. Angelou was born in St. Louis, Mo., in 1926, and published her first book in 1969. The book was her famed autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and she would go on to write six more autobiographies during her lifetime. Her most recent, Mom & Me & Mom, was published in 2013.

Poet and activist Maya Angelou speaks to the Democratic National Convention on day two, at the Fleet Center in Boston on July 27, 2004. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)

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NYP97062910-29 JUNE 1997 -NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA: Poet laureate Dr. Maya Angelou address the congregation at Riverside Church in New York City at the June 29th memorial service for Dr. Betty Shabazz who died on June 23rd from burns suffered in a fire set by her grandson Malcolm. UPI ep/Roger Celestin

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President Barack Obama awards the 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom to poet Maya Angelou during a ceremony at the White House in Washington on February 15, 2011. UPI/Kevin Dietsch

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Poet and activist Maya Angelou speaks to the Democratic National Convention on day two, in Boston on July 27, 2004. (UPI Photo/Bill Greenblatt)

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