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Angelou's second autobiography, Gather Together in My Name, recounts her life from the ages of 17-19. As feminist Mary Jane Lupton states, this book "depicts a single mother's slide down the social ladder into poverty and crime."[17] In those years, Angelou went through a series of relationships, occupations, and cities as she attempted to raise her son without the benefit of job training or advanced education. As Lupton states, "Nevertheless, she was able to survive through trial and error, while at the same time defining herself in terms of being a black woman."[18] A turning point in this book occurred when a lover seduced her into becoming a prostitute and her son was kidnapped. Later career In 1973, Angelou married Paul du Feu, an English-born carpenter and remodeler, and moved with him and her son to Sonoma, California. The years to follow were some of Angelou's most productive years as a writer and poet. She composed music for movies, wrote articles, short stories, and poetry for several magazines, continued to write autobiographies, produced plays, lectured at universities all over the country, and served on various committees. She appeared in a supporting role in the television mini-series Roots in 1977, wrote for television, and composed songs for Roberta Flack.[24] Her screenplay, Georgia, Georgia, was the first original script by a black woman to be produced.[25] It was during this time when Angelou met Oprah Winfrey and became her mentor.[26] Angelou has used the same editor throughout her writing career, Robert Loomis, an executive editor at Random House, who has been called "one of publishing's hall of fame editors."[27] Angelou divorced de Feu and returned to the southern United States in 1981, where she accepted the first lifetime Reynolds Professorship of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.[28] In 1993, she recited her poem, "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Bill Clinton's inauguration, the first poet t
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