A song flung up to heaven / Maya Angelou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Angelou, Maya.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Angelou, Maya.

African American women civil rights workers--Biography.

African American women civil rights workers.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

African American women authors--Biography.

African American women authors.

African American authors--Biography.

African American authors.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Angelou, Maya (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 212 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, 2002.

Summary:

"A Song Flung Up to Heaven" opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X and later Martin Luther King, Jr., who are both soon assassinated. Devastated, she tries to put her life back together. This book ends as Maya Angelou begins to write the first sentences of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."

Notes:

"Book design by Carole Lowenstein."

"The text of this book was set in Nofret, a typeface designed in 1986 by Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse especially for the Berthold foundry."--About the Type.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy inscribed "Joy! Maya Angelou".

ISBN:

0375507477

OCLC:

47100989