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- In 2000, Dr. Angelou was honored with the Presidential Medal of the Arts.
- She received the Ford's Theatre Lincoln Medal in 2008.
- In 2011, President Barack Obama awarded her the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
- In 1996, she directed her first feature film, Down in the Delta.
- Maya Angelou Elementary School is a public elementary school in Miami.
Maya Angelou is an American author and poet. She has published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning more than fifty years.