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In 1993 she became the first African-American and the first woman to read her poetry at a Presidential Inauguration - that of President Clinton.
She has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, has written television and film scripts and marked her seventieth birthday (in 1998) with the publication of her collected poems: Even the Stars look Lonesome.
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|   | | life events | | | | key influences and themes | | | | Angelou's work | | | | style | |  | | the next chapter | | | | being a woman writer | | | | Women Writers | | | | Ama Ata Aidoo | | | | Meena Alexander | | | | Shashi Deshpande | | | | Margaret Drabble | | | | Buchi Emecheta | | | | Jamaica Kincaid | | | | Doris Lessing | | | | Bharati Mukherjee | | | | Michele Roberts | | | | Helen Simpson | |
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