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(Illustration by TS Abe; Photographic reference: Corbis Outline #MayaAngelou #IKnowWhyTheCagedBirdSings #African-American #BlackAmerican Maya Angelou’s breakthrough memoir forever changed American literature and helped carve a new space for black self-expression Maya Angelou published the first of her seven memoirs not long after she distinguished herself as the star raconteur at a dinner party. “At the time, I was really only concerned with poetry, though I had written a television series,” she would recall. James Baldwin, the novelist and activist, took her to the party, which was at the home of the cartoonist- writer Jules Feiffer and his then-wife, Judy. “We enjoyed each other immensely and sat up until 3 or 4 in the morning, drinking Scotch and telling tales,” Angelou went on. “The next morning, Judy Feiffer called a friend of hers at Random House and said, ‘You know the poet Maya Angelou? If you could get her to write a book...’” That book became  I Know Why th