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Maya Angelou
films for PBS, she made her feature film directing debut with the mildly well-received 1998 Showtime movie Down in the Delta, starring Alfre Woodard, Wesley Snipes, and Esther Rolle.
With some 50 honorary degrees at different institutions, Angelou reportedly commands $15,000 for speaking engagements. In 1981, she accepted a special lifetime appointment as a professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Angelou is fluent in French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, and the West African language of Fanti. She now lives in Winston-Salem, and has a great-granddaughter, Caylin Johnson, born in February 1998.