<P> Angelou's successful acting career included roles in numerous plays, films, and television programs, such as in the television mini-series Roots in 1977 . Her screenplay Georgia, Georgia (1972) was the first original script by a black woman to be produced . and she was the first African - American woman to direct a major motion picture, Down in the Delta, in 1998 . Since the 1990s, Angelou participated in the lecture circuit, which she continued into her eighties . </P> <P> Unless otherwise stated, the items in this list are from Gillespie et al, pp. 186--191 . </P> <Ul> <Li> I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). New York: Random House . ISBN 978 - 0 - 375 - 50789 - 2 </Li> <Li> Gather Together in My Name (1974). New York: Random House . ISBN 978 - 0 - 394 - 48692 - 5 </Li> <Li> Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976). New York: Random House . ISBN 978 - 0 - 679 - 45777 - 0 </Li> <Li> The Heart of a Woman (1981). New York: Random House . ISBN 978 - 0 - 8129 - 8032 - 5 </Li> <Li> All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986). New York: Random House . ISBN 978 - 0 - 679 - 73404 - 8 </Li> <Li> A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002). New York: Random House . ISBN 978 - 0 - 375 - 50747 - 2 </Li> <Li> I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou (2004). New York: Modern Library . ISBN 978 - 0 - 679 - 64325 - 8 </Li> <Li> Mom & Me & Mom (2013). New York: Random House . ISBN 978 - 1 - 4000 - 6611 - 7 </Li> </Ul> <Li> I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). New York: Random House . ISBN 978 - 0 - 375 - 50789 - 2 </Li>

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