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Shrunken versions of novels like “Sense and Sensibility” and “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” will be sold by Coach as readable bag charms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

Naval Academy’s library, including works on the Holocaust, histories of feminism and civil rights, and Maya Angelou’s memoir “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” while copies of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” were retained.

From Salon • Sep. 20, 2025

Classics such as Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” have been pulled from reading lists.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2023

Two years later, he was featured in two acclaimed TV movies, “The Jericho Mile,” directed by Michael Mann, and “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” adapted from Maya Angelou’s autobiography.

From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2022

I sink into my chair, placing The Bluest Eye on top of Darlene, and reach for my next read, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles