Angelou* is the correct way to say her name. And I can’t say much about Edgar Allen Poe, however maya went through trauma as a child and when she was 8 she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend. Her parents were divorced and she lived with her grandmother and brother... the work she is most known for is a poem called caged bird, it has to do with slavery and rights. There’s a bunch more that a bunch of websites say