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Sandra Cisneros

Author of The House on Mango Street

Includes the names: Sandra Cisneros, Sondra Cisneros

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Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago, Illinois on December 20, 1954. She received a B.A. in English from Loyola University of Chicago in 1976 and a M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Iowa in 1978. She has worked as a college recruiter, an arts administrator, a teacher to high school dropouts, and a poet. She has also visited numerous colleges around the country as a visiting writer. She has written numerous books including The House on Mango Street, Caramelo, Loose Woman, Have You Seen Marie?, and A House of My Own: Stories from My Life. She has received numerous awards including the MacArthur Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the Lannan Literary Award, the American Book Award, and the Thomas Wolfe Prize. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The House on Mango Street… (more)
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (Contributor) 722 copies, 3 reviews
The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books (Contributor) 293 copies, 12 reviews
Cool Salsa (Contributor) 289 copies, 14 reviews
We Are the Stories We Tell (Contributor) 190 copies, 1 review
Granta 108: Chicago (Contributor) 131 copies, 1 review
Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories (Contributor) 125 copies, 1 review
Leaving Home: Stories (Contributor) 114 copies
Goddess of the Americas (Contributor) 100 copies, 1 review
American Christmas Stories (Contributor) 56 copies
What’s Language Got to Do with It? (Contributor) 51 copies, 2 reviews
Chicago Noir: The Classics (Contributor) 46 copies, 13 reviews
The Seasons of Women: An Anthology (Contributor) 46 copies
Prejudice: A Story Collection (Contributor) 40 copies
The Signet Book of American Essays (Contributor) 36 copies
Floricanto Si!: U.S. Latina Poetry (Contributor) 25 copies
Stumbling and Raging (Contributor) 22 copies
The New Great American Writers' Cookbook (Contributor) 20 copies, 1 review
20th Century American Short Stories, Volume 1 (Contributor) 16 copies, 1 review
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