Dr. Maya Angelou. Poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, civil-rights activist, producer and director died Wednesday morning at age 86,
according to officials at the city of Winston-Salem
mayor’s office.
Angelou recently cancelled a scheduled appearance at the 2014 MLB Beacon Award Luncheon, where she was to be
honored with the Beacon of Life Award, due to health problems. Linda
Jackson-Barnes, assistant to Winston-Salem’s mayor, confirmed to TIME that the
poet had passed away.
Angelou has been honored with more than 50 awards, including the nation’s
highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, for her collected
works of poetry, fiction and nonfiction, most notably her groundbreaking
memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which made history as one of
the first nonfiction best-sellers by an African-American woman.
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