Maya Angelou lived in several places throughout her life, especially across the American South, the Midwest, and on the West Coast, with her most sustained later-life home in North Carolina.

Early life homes

  • She was born Marguerite Annie Johnson at 3130 Hickory Street in St. Louis, Missouri, a house now recognized as a city landmark.
  • As a child she was sent to live with her grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas, a small town that became the setting for many scenes in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

Moves as a young woman

  • After periods between St. Louis and Stamps, she moved to California in the 1940s, living in cities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco.
  • She also spent time in New York City in the late 1940s, working and raising her son before returning again to San Francisco.

Later years and long-term home

  • In her later career, after extensive travel and work abroad, she settled in North Carolina in 1970, which became her main long-term home in the United States.
  • While she traveled widely for writing, performance, and activism, North Carolina and her childhood town of Stamps remained the places most closely associated with her life story.

TL;DR: When people ask “where did Maya Angelou live,” the key places are: her birthplace St. Louis, her formative childhood home Stamps, Arkansas, her young adult years in California and New York, and her long-term later home in North Carolina.

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