Renaissance woman Maya Angelou is a poet, author, playwright, professional stage and screen producer, director, and performer. One of her best known written works is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970), a humorous autobiography set in segregated A...

Derek Walcott (1930- ) is a West Indian writer whose poems and dramas exhibit his deft control of language as he infuses the English language with a rich mix of Latin, French, and patois. The son a British father and a West Indian mother, Walcott dr...