![]() “Some writers dress the truth in a kind of elegant language, so it doesn’t seem quite so blatant, so harsh, so raw. “She’s never afraid of the truth,” the writer Maya Angelou, a friend of more than 50 years, said in a telephone interview on Wednesday. The themes to which she returned repeatedly in these books - and in several well-received novels for adults - included race, class, poverty, sexuality and simmering tensions between American blacks and Afro-Caribbean immigrants newly arrived in the United States. She addressed subjects that had remained largely unexplored in fiction for teenagers when she began her career four decades ago. Guy (her surname rhymes with “key”) was widely considered one of the 20th century’s most distinguished writers for young adults. The cause was cancer, her grandson Warner Guy III said. ![]() Rosa Guy, a Caribbean-born writer known for her unflinchingly direct novels for young people about black life in urban America, died on Sunday at her home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. ![]()
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