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This week, Gather Together in My Name, became a good article. Gather Together in My Name is Maya Angelou's second autobiography. It's not as well-received as her first book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, so it doesn't have nearly as much written about it. As a result, its WP article is probably doesn't have Featured article-potential like Caged Bird. (I'm waiting for someone to do a copyedit on that article before I nominate it for FA again.) I wrote this article, with very little input and collaboration from other editors, probably because it's one of my "strays" that no one else has any interest in.

My goal for Angelou-related articles is to have an article for all seven of her autobiographies, and to get her main bio page improved enough to make it a FA. What that means, of course, since I'm probably going to be the one who does it, is that I have to actually read them. I figure, how can you write an article about a book unless you've read it? Since they're autobiographies, I don't feel like I can contribute to those parts of her articles with any expertise until then. As I told the administrator who passed Gather Together, I don't see that happening for at least another year.

When that's all done, and I'm sufficiently satisfied, I'd like to get a Maya Angelou featured topic. This is what it would require. Dr. Angelou is certainly is an important enough American author for it, and it's a worthwhile long-term project.