... . President Gerald Ford and the National Commission appointed her to the Bicentennial Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year by Jimmy Carter. She has published ten best selling books and countless magazine articles, and in 1993 she wrote and delivered the presidential inauguration for President Bill Clinton. One of Maya Angelou's books, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, an account of her youth, describes the trauma of being raped as ... a child, the violent death of her attacker, and her subsequent refusal to speak for five years. It has been ... ...

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