Writers’ Residences: Literature Lives Here
| June 9, 2017
4. Maya Angelou – Hotel Rooms, USA
In a time where social tensions brought unrest to the USA, Maya Angelou’s voice was heard by everyone. Apart from being a writer and poet, Maya worked with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement.
Maya had an unusual writing routine. Everywhere she lived, she always paid for a hotel room monthly, even though she never slept there. She only used it to write. She requested that there be no paintings on the walls, and the bedsheets were never to be changed. Apart from yellow legal pads to write on, she only kept the Bible, a Thesaurus, a bottle of sherry, and a deck of cards to play solitaire with in the room.
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