Maya Anjelu öz uşaqlıq həyatından və ilkin böyük həyatından bəhs edən altı cildlik avtobioqrafik əsərləri ilə məşhurdur. Məhz bu ssər ona beynlxalq şöhrət gətirdi və Milli Kitab Mükafatına namizəd kimi təqdim edildi.
Angelou, Maya (1969). I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-375-50789-2
Angelou, Maya (1984). "Shades and slashes of light". In Black women writers (1950–1980): A critical evaluation, Mari Evans, ed. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday . ISBN 0-385-17124-2
Angelou, Maya (1986). All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes. New York: Random House. ISNB 0-679-73404-X
Angelou, Maya (1993). Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-394-22363-2
Baisnée, Valérie (1994). Gendered resistance: The autobiographies of Simone de Beauvoir, Maya Angelou, Janet Frame and Marguerite Duras. Amsterdam: Rodopi Publishers. ISBN 90-420-0109-7
Braxton, Joanne M. (1999). "Symbolic geography and psychic landscapes: A conversation with Maya Angelou". In Maya Angelou's I know why the caged bird sings: A casebook, Joanne M. Braxton, ed. New York: Oxford Press. ISBN 0-19-511606-2
Cudjoe, Selwyn R. (1984). "Maya Angelou and the autobiographical statement". In Black women writers (1950–1980): A critical evaluation, Mari Evans, ed. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday . ISBN 0-385-17124-2
Hagen, Lyman B. (1997). Heart of a woman, mind of a writer, and soul of a poet: A critical analysis of the writings of Maya Angelou. Lanham, Maryland: University Press. ISBN 0-7618-0621-0
Lauret, Maria (1994). Liberating literature: Feminist fiction in America. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-06515-1
Lupton, Mary Jane (1998). Maya Angelou: A critical companion. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-30325-8
Lupton, Mary Jane (1999). "Singing the black mother". In Maya Angelou's I know why the caged bird sings: A casebook, Joanne M. Braxton, ed. New York: Oxford Press. ISBN 0-19-511606-2
McPherson, Dolly A. (1990). Order out of chaos: The autobiographical works of Maya Angelou. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. ISBN 0-8204-1139-6
Moyer, Homer E. (2003). The R.A.T. real-world aptitude test: Preparing yourself for leaving home. Sterling, Virginia: Capital Books. ISBN 1-931868-42-5
O'Neale, Sondra (1984). "Reconstruction of the composite self: New images of black women in Maya Angelou's continuing autobiography". In Black women writers (1950–1980): A critical evaluation, Mari Evans, ed. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-17124-2
Sartwell, Crispin. (1998). Act like you know: African-American autobiography and white identity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-73527-3
Tate, Claudia (1999). "Maya Angelou". In Maya Angelou's I know why the caged bird sings: A casebook, Joanne M. Braxton, ed. New York: Oxford Press. ISBN 0-19-511606-2