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From KQED. From KQED Public Radio in San Francisco, I'm Michael Krasny.

Coming up on this special holiday edition of Forum, two author interviews from our archives.

First, we'll listen back to my 2002 conversation with fame poet and author and civil rights activist Maya Angelou,

who died in 2014. We talked about a song flung up to heaven, the sixth book, and her series of autobiographies. Then author Louise Erdrick on her national book award-winning novel, The Roundhouse.

I spoke with her in 2012. That's all next, on forum, and remember, since this is a

previously recorded hour, we won't be taking your live calls and emails. Join us after this. This is Michael Krasny.

In the special pre-recorded holiday edition hour of forum, we're going to listen back to my 2002

interview with fame poet, an author, and civil rights activist Maya Angelou, who died in 2014.

We talked about her book, A Song Flung Up to Heaven, the sixth book in her series of autobiographies,

which started with I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings.

I started by asking her about her relationship with the writer, James Baldwin.

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