RESOURCES:

• Journal articles from academic databases (click here for section one).
• Books. Print and electronic (eBooks) books (click here for section two).
• Critical and biographical Web sites (click here for section three).

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SECTION ONE: Journal articles from academic databases. <back to page top>

Literary topics are among the more difficult to research in online databases. To assist you in this, the following are specific recommendations regarding Maya Angelou.

DATABASE	SEARCH TERMS	RESULTS
Academic Search Premier	maya angelou Perform the basic search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full Text," and "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) journals".	Provides a number of relevant items.
Arts & Sciences Collections I & II	maya angelou JSTOR, the search system for Arts & Sciences Collections I & II.	Provides a large number of revelant documents.
Contemporary Authors	maya angelou Perform the "Author" search.	Provides a profile of the author's life and works.
Encyclopedia Britannica	maya angelou Perform the default search.	Provides a primary encyclopedia article and a number of related articles and Web sites.
Expanded Academic ASAP	maya angelou Perform the Subject search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search "to articles with text."	Provides a number of relevant items.
Facts on File: African American History and Culture	maya angelou Perform the Subject search. Use the checkboxes to limit your search "to articles with text."	Provides several biographies and articles.
Literature Resource Center	angelou Perform the default (author) search. After you perform your search, select each of the tabs for biography, criticisms, Web links, and journal articles.	Provides a number of quality documents and links to additional Web sites.
MagillOnLiterature	angelou Perform the default search.	Provides a number of relevant items.
Research Library Complete	maya angelou Perform the basic search. Set the "Database:" drop-down menu to "Interdisciplinary - Research Library." Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full text articles only" and"Scholarly journals".	Provides a large number of quality items.
Scribner's	Select “Writers A-Z” and click on the links to: Angelou, Maya: American Writers Supp. 4 Angelou, Maya: Modern American Women Writers Angelou, Maya: Writers for Young Adults	Provides an essay about the author and her works, along with a bibliography.
SIRS Renaissance	angelou Perform the "Quick Search."	Provides a small number of quality items.
Story Finder	angelouPerform the "Basic Search" and click on the "By Full Text: link to view more result.	Provides a number of full-text items by the author.

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SECTION TWO: Troy Library book holdings. <back to page top>

• The following bibliography is for selected holdings. For complete holdings consult the Online Catalog.
  
• Circulating books not available at your local library may be requested by interlibrary loan.
  
• eBooks are electronic books that Troy makes available (immediately) to its users worldwide via the Internet.
  
• To find works written by Maya Angelou, do a catalog search for angelou and select the Author option. To find works written about the author, select the Search everything option. The following are selected titles from among the Troy libraries’ holdings. Search the library catalog for more results.

  All God’s children need traveling shoes
  PS3551N464Z463 1991
  Location: Troy, AL; Dothan; Phenix City

  Gather together in my name
  PS3551N464Z464 1974
  Location: Troy, AL

  The heart of a woman
  PS3551N464Z464 1974
  Location: Troy, AL

  I know why the caged bird sings
  PS3551N464Z466 1971
  Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

  Heart of a woman, mind of a writer, and soul of a poet
  PS3551N464Z68 1997
  Location: Montgomery

  Order out of chaos: the autobiographical works of Maya Angelou
  PS3551N464Z78 1991
  Location: Troy, AL

  Readings on Maya Angelou
  PS3551N464Z84 1997
  Location: Troy, AL
  
  Black directors in Hollywood
  Location: eBook

  Maya Angelou's I know why the caged bird sings : a casebook
  PS3551 .N464 Z794 1999
  Location: Montgomery

  Soul looks back in wonder
  PS591.N4 S58 1993
  Location: Dothan

  Maya Angelou : a critical companion
  PS3551.N464 Z7578 1998
  Location: Troy, AL; Dothan; Montgomery

  Of women, poetry, and power : strategies of address in Dickinson, Miles, Brooks, Lorde, and Angelou
  PS151 .B87 2002
  Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

  Understanding I know why the caged bird sings : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents
  PS3551 .N464 Z79 1998
  Location: Phenix City

  Singin' and swingin' and gettin' merry like Christmas
  E185.97.A56 A33
  Location: Troy, AL

  A song flung up to heaven
  PS3551 .N464 Z476 2002
  Location: Troy, AL; Dothan; Phenix City

  Autobiography of a people : three centuries of African American history told by those who lived it
  E185 .A97 2000
  Location: Troy, AL

  And still I rise
  PS3551.N464 A8 1978
  Location: Dothan

  On the pulse of morning
  PS3551.N464 O58 1993
  Location: Dothan

  Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now
  PS3551 .N464 W68 1993
  Location: Phenix City

  Parting the curtains : interviews with Southern writers
  PS261.P38 1994
  Location: Dothan; Montgomery

  Phenomenal woman : four poems celebrating women
  PS3551 .N464 P48 1994
  Location: Troy, AL

  Traditions, voices, and dreams : the American novel since the 1960s
  PS379 .T7 1995
  Location: Montgomery

  Bearing witness : contemporary works by African American women artists
  N6538 .N5 B43 1996
  Location: Troy, AL

  And still I rise
  PS3551 .N464 A8 1996
  Location: Phenix City

  Even the stars look lonesome
  PS3551 .N464 E94 1997B
  Location: Troy, AL

  The challenge of creative leadership
  HM141.I58 1997
  Location: Dothan

  The African-American century : how Black Americans have shaped our country
  E185.96 .G38 2000
  Location: Troy, AL

  Circling Dixie : contemporary southern culture through a transatlantic lens
  F216.2 .T39 2001
  Location: Troy, AL

  African American writers : portraits and visions
  PS153 .N5 K66 2001
  Location: Dothan

  See also the bibliography for African-American Literature.

  
  

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SECTION THREE: Critical and biographical Web sites. <back to page top>

• Maya Angelou
  http://www.mayaangelou.com
  
  
• Maya Angelou
  http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=88
  
  
• Maya Angelou: A Bibliography of Literary Criticism
  http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/1221/Angelou.htm
  
  
• An Interview with Maya Angelou by David Frost
  http://www.newsun.com/angelou.html
  
  
• Interview with Maya Angelou
  http://www.motherjones.com/arts/qa/1995/05/kelley.html
  
  
• Maya Angelou Links
  http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/angelou/angelou_links.html
  
  
• Voices from the Gap: Women Writers of Color
  http://voices.cla.umn.edu/newsite/authors/ANGELOUmaya.htm
  
  
• Autobiography: Maya Angelou
  http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1985/3/85.03.03.x.html
  
  
• On the Pulse of Morning
  http://gos.sbc.edu/a/angelou.html
  
  
• Maya Angelou
  http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/angelou168-au-.html
  
  
• PAL: Maya Angelou
  http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/angelou.html
  
  
• Maya Angelou Institute
  http://www.wssu.edu/mai
  
  
• Maya Angelou
  http://www.umkc.edu/lib/exhibits/4-writers/angelou.html
  
  
• Analyzing Maya Angelou’s Poems as a Window Into Her Character
  http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/2003/3/03.03.06.x.html