An·ge·lou  (ān'jə-lōō')  American poet, playwright, and novelist best known for her autobiographical novels, including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970). |
A twentieth-century African-American writer, whose best-known work is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, an autobiographical account of growing up as a black girl in the rural South. Angelou read her poem “On the Pulse of the Morning” at President Bill Clinton's 1993 inaugural ceremony.