... , historian, author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director. She has been published ten best selling books and numerous magazine articles earning her Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominations. At the request of President Clinton, she wrote and delivered a poem at his 1993 presidential inauguration. Maya was born in St. Louis and raised in a segregated rural Arkansas. Her poetry ... ...

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