Maya Angelou, actress, dancer, and writer, was the first black to have an original screenplay produced, "Georgia, Georgia," which she directed. Angelou was also the first black woman to have a non-fiction work on the best-seller list. Her autobiographical "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (1970) evoked images of a black girl's childhood in the South, and was nominated for a 1970 National Book Award and aired as a television movie in 1979. An artist of wide-ranging talents, she was nominated for a Tony award for acting and a Pulitzer Prize for poetry.