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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings I Know Why the Caged Bird sings is an autobiography written by Maya Angelou one of many great voices of contemporary African-American Literature. I know why the caged bird sings starts off in Stamps, Arkansas. When their parents are at the pint of getting a divorce, Maya and Bailey are sent to their Grandmother and Uncle, Momma Henderson and Uncle Willie. After living with them for a while Bailey and Maya finds out their parents are alive. All this time they thought their parents were dead and that they had been given away. One day their father, Bailey Sr., comes to see them. He ends up coming to get them to take them