High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Heart of a Woman (1981, ISBN 0-553-24689-5) is an autobiography by African-American writer Maya Angelou, and was chosen as an Oprah`s Book Club selection in 1997. The book is the fourth installment in Angelou`s series of six autobiographies, thus enlarging the autobiography in both form and content, something critic Mary Jane Lupton calls "a narrative structure unsurpassed in American autobiography". The title is taken from a poem by Harlem Renaissance poet Georgia Douglas Johnson, which connects Angelou with other African American female writers for the first time. Lupton also calls this book Angelou`s "most introspective".