Credit: Reuters/Jim Young
U.S. poet Maya Angelou speaks during a ceremony to honor South African Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu with the J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding Award in Washington November 21, 2008.
Former President Bill Clinton is also scheduled to attend the tribute at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, where Angelou taught for three decades, the school said.
Angelou wrote the poem 'On the Pulse of Morning' and read it at Clinton's first presidential inauguration in 1993.
She was 86 when she died at her home on May 28.
Angelou was best known for her 1969 autobiography 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,' about growing up in the segregated South. That pioneering work helped give black women writers a literary voice and became a reading list staple in American classrooms.
The memoir was among a body of work including more than 30 books of fiction and poetry produced by Angelou during her prodigious career. She was also a Tony-nominated stage actress, Grammy Award winner for three spoken-word albums, civil rights activist, streetcar conductor, Calypso singer, dancer, movie director and playwright.
In 2011, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor, was bestowed upon her by President Barack Obama.
After her death, President Obama said he and the first lady cherished the time they had spent with Angelou, for whom the president said his sister was named.
Winfrey called Angelou her 'mentor, mother/sister and friend.'
Angelou served as a professor of American Studies at Wake Forest since 1982, and had planned to teach a course on race, culture and gender this fall, the university said.
(editing by Gunna Dickson)
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