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Five lessons on memoirs from Maya Angelou

It was Mark Twain who once said that biographies are but clothes and buttons of the man; the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Yet, Maya Angelou did write hers. With an extravagant candour, and a rare gift for lyrical prose, Maya released seven autobiographies enriching the memoirist genre of books like no other author of her ilk.

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