In The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to go to New York.
She continues to sing, most notably at the Apollo Theatre in H.
She stays for a while with John and Grace Killens and begins to read her writing at the Harlem Writers Guild.
Not since her childhood has she lived in an almost black environment, and she is surprised at the obsession her new friends have with the white world around them.
There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers.
In The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to go to New York