Dates Set for Book Discussion with Maya Angelou Biography in MS!

Poet, dancer, actress, memorist, Grammy winner, playright, icon, legend: Maya Angelou. The world knows of the legendary Dr. Maya Angelou fro her numerous bestselling books including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now and A Song Flung Up to Heaven. Now, upon the occasion of her 80th birthday, MAYA ANGELOU: A Glorious Celebraton offers a privage look insider an extraordinary life.

Conversations Book Club President Cyrus A. Webb was chosen by Doubleday, the book's publisher, to receive and read an advance copy of the book that will be released worldwide on April 1, 2008 and given access to exclusive interviews two of the three authors (Marcia Ann Gillespie and Rose Johnson Butler). The 30-minute discussion/interviews will be taped live at the Pearl Public Library in Pearl, MS for Webb's online program "Conversations" and will be open to the public and will be as follows:

 

Monday, April 7, 2008 @ 12p.m. --- Discussion with Marcia Gillespie

Wednesday, April 9, 2008 @ 12p.m. --- Discussion with Rosa Johnson Butler

 

 

MAYA ANGELOU: A GLORIOUS CELEBRATION offers an unusual and irresistible look at her life and her myriad interests and accomplishments. Created by the people who know her best—her longtime friends Marcia Ann Gillespie and Richard Long, and her niece Rosa Johnson Butler—it is part tribute, part scrapbook, capturing Angelou at home, at work, and in the public eye. Readers who have come to know and love Maya Angelou will be surprised and delighted by this personal, illustrated portrait of the renowned poet, author, playwright, and humanitarian.

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