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Condition: Good. Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. The fourth volume of her enthralling autobiography finds Maya Angelou immersed in the world of black writers and artists in Harlem, working in the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King. Maya Angelou has... achieved a kind of literary breakthrough which few writers of any time, place, or race achieve.... What makes [her] writing unique is... a melding of unconcerned honesty, consummate craft, and perfect descriptive pitch, yielding a rare compound of great emotional force and authenticity. -The Washington Post Book World To say that Angelou is a living legend is in no way an exaggeration. [She is] one of the great voices of contemporary literature. -The Voice Angelou is one of the geniuses of the Afro-American serial autobiography. -The New York Times About the author () Maya Angelou - Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson on April in Saint Louis, Missouri. She attended public school in Stamps, Arkansas and San Francisco, California. She is perhaps best known for her semi-autobiographical work "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", and for the tireless effort she puts forth to make the world aware. In her youth, Angelou traveled the world, eventually marrying a South African freedom fighter and settling in Cairo, where she edited The Arab Observer, the only English language weekly newspaper in the Middle East. They later moved to Ghana where she was Features Editor of The African Review and taught at the University of Ghana. In the 60's, Dr, Martin Luther King requested that Angelou return to the US to become the northern coordinator of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. She was later appointed to the Bicentennial Commission by President Ford and to the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year by President Carter. "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die" was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in . Ten years later, in , Angelou was appointed to the lifetime position of Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University. Angelou became only the second poet in United States history to write and recite an original poem at a Presidential Inauguration; in she read "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Clinton's Inauguration Ceremony. In , Angelou received an amazing amount of honors. Her semi-autobiographical tale, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", which was originally published in , became the longest running nonfiction best seller by an African American on the New York Times Bestsellers List. That same year, "A Brave and Startling Truth" was recited at the 50th Anniversary celebration of the United Nations, and "From a Black Woman to a Black Man" was recited at the Million Man March in Washington D. C.. Angelou is best known, however, for the five books of her autobiography, beginning with "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (), which she adapted for television, through "All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes" (). Angelou's collection of essays entitled "Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now" was published in . She has assumed the roles of poet, educator, historian, author, actress, playwright, civil rights activist, producer and director. Angelou had also appeared in the movie "Roots" and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in for her role in the movie. She also had a role in the movie, "How to Make an American Quilt" and wrote and produced "Afro-Americans in the Arts", a PBS special for which she received a Golden Eagle Award. She is the author of 11 best selling books. Her title Mom and Me and Mom made The New York Times Best Seller List in .

PENN JACK. A SURGEON'S STORY. "It's the devine right of man to look human." Cape Town ?, Circa . Typed Manuscript. This seems to be the typed manuscript of this extremely scares item. The only printed copy I could trace is part of the Brenthurst Library's collection. All the illustrations in their copy are full page photocopy quality portraits.The frontis and all the other illustrations, in my copy, are all original glossy b&w photos pasted in and include photos of Jack Penn, Anne Penn, Diana Penn, Lepers at Nagashima, Hiroshima mother and child, Jan van Riebeeck, Lord Joseph Lister, Winston Churchill, Sir Archibald McIndoe, Jan Smuts, Henrietta Stockdale, Roy Welensky, Albert Schweitzer, Dr Chaim Sheba, Moshe Dayan, David Ben-Gurion, General Matthew Ridgway, Abraham Colles, as well as photos of 2 letters written by dr Albert Schweitzer. In his Preface, Penn writes: "The major part of this autobiography was written in 'The Right to Look Human', which is now out of print. I have taken the decision to rewrite it with modifications as dictated by the flux of time."  217 Pp. A biographical discription of Jack Penn can be found at "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Penn"                Near Fine. Limp cardboard covers.. Spine is slightly faded and a small inkscratch appears on upper cover, otherwise this is a very neat, tight and well preserved item. (#) biography, south africa, plastic surgery, brenthurst, wwii, world war,

 Warrior without weapons by Marcel Junod Warrior without weapons autobiography The "warrior" is the Red Cross, fighting against suffering and cruelty, Dr Marcel served Nobly for 10 years