How many great African American authors do you know of? Well, I’m going to tell you about a few more. There was Maya Angelou – author of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. And Langston Hughes – author of many children’s books. And we can’t forget about Louis Armstrong – he wrote What A Wonderful World. These were all great authors. Maya Angelou was a great poet, but her family life wasn’t always that great. When she was around 8, her mothers’ boyfriend mistreated her, and she went a whole year without speaking – that is, until one day a woman named Mrs. Flowers invited her over for lemonade and cookies, then she was loaned a poetry book and told to memorize a poem and to recite it when they next met. But Maya Angelou didn’t just recite