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         Cisneros Sandra:     more books (102)
  1. Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros, 1992-03-03
  2. Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros, 2003-09-09
  3. My Wicked Wicked Ways by Sandra Cisneros, 1992-11-17
  4. Border Crossings and Beyond: The Life and Works of Sandra Cisneros (Women Writers of Color) by Carmen Haydée Rivera, 2009-09-23
  5. Loose Woman: Poems by Sandra Cisneros, 1995-03-14
  6. El arroyo de la Llorona y otros cuentos by Sandra Cisneros, 1996-09-03
  7. Sandra Cisneros in the Classroom: "Do Not Forget to Reach" (The Ncte High School Literature Series) by Carol Jago, 2002-02
  8. Vintage Cisneros by Sandra Cisneros, 2004-01-06
  9. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, 1994-04-26
  10. La casa en Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, 1994-10-18
  11. Hairs/Pelitos by Sandra Cisneros, 1997-11-25
  12. The House on Mango Street (Paperback) by Sandra Cisneros (Author), 1991
  13. Sandra Cisneros: Latina Writer and Activist (Hispanic Biographies) by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, 1998-12
  14. Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros, 2004-07-19

1. Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros. Friends,. I know most of you would like to know a little about how I write and what inspired me to write the books you have read.
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Sandra Cisneros Friends, I know most of you would like to know a little about how I write and what inspired me to write the books you have read. I want you all to know I am busy working on several projects, including a book on how I teach writing, autobiographical essays that might answer all your questions and maybe a few you didn't even ask. This book is titled Writing in My Pajamas , and I don't know when I will finish it, but I do know I am a very slow writer, and I don't write at all on the days I wear shoes and comb my hair. In other words, I am a writer when I stay home, don't see anyone, don't talk too much (which for me is very hard), and am quiet enough to hear the things inside my heart. In the meantime, I want to answer the two questions I'm always asked:
  • Is this story true? Are you the main character in the story?
  • I mean that I write what I see, what's told to me that I feel very deeply, or what happened to me that I can't forget, but also what happened to others I love, or what strangers have told me happened to them, or what I read happened to others. I take all of this and cut and paste it together to make a story, because in real life a story doesn't have shape, and it's the writer that gives it a begining, a middle, and an end. Of course, I cannot borrow anyone else's story unless I have lived a similar emotion. That is why I say all the emotions in my work, good and bad, are autobiographical. Does that make sense? For how could I write about a broken heart if my own heart hadn't been parted in two like an apple?

    2. Sandra Cisneros - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
    Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954 in Chicago) is an MexicanAmerican author and poet best known for her novel The House on Mango Street.
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    Occupation Novelist, Poet, Short Story writer Nationality American Genres Literary Fiction Website SandraCisneros.com Author of house on mano street and MORE Sandra Cisneros (born December 20 in Chicago ) is an Mexican-American author and poet best known for her novel The House on Mango Street . She is also the author of Caramelo , published by Knopf in 2002. Much of her writing is influenced by her Mexican heritage.
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    Sandra was the only daughter in her family of seven. Her Mexican father, Mexican-American mother, and her family moved through a series of run-down apartments in the poor neighborhoods of Chicago's South Side. While a teenager, her family realized her dream of purchasing a house, although she considered it old and ugly. This probably inspired much of her most famous novel The House on Mango Street. Her family frequently traveled between Mexico and the United States, inspiring elements of Caramelo.

    3. PEN American Center - Sandra Cisneros
    Sandra Cisneros is the author of many books, including My Wicked Wicked Ways; Loose Woman; Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories; Hairs/Pelitos,
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    4. Sandra Cisneros --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia
    Britannica online encyclopedia article on Sandra Cisneros American shortstory writer and poet best known for her groundbreaking evocation of Mexican
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    5. SAPL: Latino Collection - Sandra Cisneros
    Sandra Cisneros resources available at the San Antonio Public Library s Latino Collection.
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    Latino Collection - Sandra Cisneros WORKS El Arroyo de la Llorona translated by Liliana Valenzuela
    Español Ficción Cisnero s La Casa en Mango Street translated by Elena Poniatowska
    Español Ficción Cisneros Hairs: Pelitos
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    811.54 Cisneros Latino 811.54 Cisneros Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories Fiction Cisneros Latino Fiction Cisneros LITERARY CRITICISM American Novelists Since World War II. Fourth Series. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 152. A Reference 813.5409 American Chicano Writers. Second Series. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 122. Reference 810.98697 Chicano Latino 810.98697 Chicano Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 69 Reference 809 Contemporary Critical Survey of Short Fiction revised ed., Vol. 2. Analysis of The House on Mango Street and Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories.

    6. Sandra Cisneros
    Sandra Cisneros (1954) is one of 52 authors who appear on our Notable Writers of Color poster, on display in the English Department Advising Office.
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    7. Sandra Cisneros
    Sandra Cisneros. Born 20Dec-1954 Birthplace Chicago, IL. Gender Female Race or Ethnicity Hispanic Occupation Author. Nationality United States
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    Executive summary: The House on Mango Street University: BA English, Loyola University Chicago (1976)
    University: MFA Creative Writing, University of Iowa (1978)
    Teacher: Latino Youth Alternative High School, Chicago, IL (1978-80)
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    Lannan Literary Award ... Mexican Ancestry Official Website: http://www.sandracisneros.com/ Author of books: Bad Boys , poetry) The House on Mango Street , novel) My Wicked, Wicked Ways , poetry) Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories , short stories) Loose Woman , poetry) Caramelo , novel) Do you know something we don't? Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile

    8. Sandra Cisneros - Wikipedia, La Enciclopedia Libre
    Translate this page Sandra Cisneros (n. Chicago, 20 de diciembre de 1954) es una autora de los Estados Unidos y es mejor conocida por su novela La Casa en Mango Street.
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    Saltar a navegaci³n bºsqueda Sandra Cisneros (n. Chicago 20 de diciembre de ) es una autora de los Estados Unidos y es mejor conocida por su novela La Casa en Mango Street . Tambi©n es la autora de la novela Caramelo , publicada en el 2002 por Knopf. Su herencia mexicana es una influencia importante de su obra. Cisneros fue la tercera y ºnica mujer entre siete hermanos. Durante su ni±ez su familia se mud³ en una serie de departamentos en los pobres barrios populares del South Side (El Lado Sure±o) de Chicago. Cuando era joven, su familia logr³ una meta que se hab­a propuesto mucho tiempo atr¡s al comprar una casa, que ella consider³ fea y desbaratada. Es muy probable que este evento haya sido la inspiraci³n para La Casa en Mango Street. Su familia viajaba frecuentemente entre M©xico y los Estados Unidos , inspirando elementos de Caramelo.
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    En 1976, Cisneros recibi³ su Bachillerato (BA) en la escritura del idioma ingl©s de la Universidad Loyola de Chicago. Se matricul³ en un programa de graduado en escrituras creativas del Taller de Escritura de la Universidad de Iowa y gan³ un t­tulo de Masters en escritura creativa en 1978. Recibi³ una beca del National Endowment for the Arts (Becario Nacional de las Artes) en 1982. La beca permiti³ que ella se quedara un a±o en el instituto

    9. Sandra Cisneros - NativeWiki
    Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954 in Chicago) is an Native American/Hispanic, Xicana, author and poet best known for her novel The House on Mango
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    Jump to: navigation search Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954 in Chicago) is an Native American/Hispanic, Xicana , author and poet best known for her novel The House on Mango Street . She is also the author of Caramelo , published by Knopf in 2002. Much of her writing is influenced by her Mexican-American heritage. Her other published works include Woman Hollering Creek (1991), a book of short stories; three books of poetry, Bad Boys My Wicked Wicked Ways (1987) and Loose Woman (1994); and Vintage Cisneros (2003), a collection of her works. In 1994, she wrote a children's book, Hairs/Pelitos , with a Spanish translation by Liliana Valenzuela; Valenzuela also translated Woman Hollering Creek (as El arroyo de la Llorona y otros cuentos ) and Caramelo The House on Mango Street was translated into Spanish by Elena Poniatowska as La casa en Mango Street
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    Cisneros was the third of seven children and is the only girl of six boys in the family. Her Mexican father, Mexican-American mother, and six brothers have served as models for characters in her fiction. During childhood, her family moved through a series of run-down apartments in the poor neighborhoods of Chicago's South Side. While a teenager, her family realized her dream of purchasing a house, although she considered it ugly and old. This probably inspired much of her most famous novel The House on Mango Street.

    10. Seattle Arts & Lectures - Sandra Cisneros
    Sandra Cisneros burst onto the literary scene in 1983 with the publication of The House on Mango Street. A series of vignettes told from the perspective of
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    Sandra Cisneros burst onto the literary scene in 1983 with the publication of The House on Mango Street. A series of vignettes told from the perspective of a young girl growing up in Chicago, the book has sold more than two million copies, distinguishing Cisneros as the most widely read Latina author in America. Born in 1954, Cisneros grew up in Chicago, the child of a Mexican father and a Chicana mother, and sister to six brothers. She was "Daddy’s princess," she says, and struggled against her father’s traditional vision for his daughter. Her latest novel, Caramelo (2002), began as a short story in which she set out to understand her father and his traditional views more fully. Over nine years, it became not only a way for Cisneros to recapture her own memories, but also a tome of Mexican and American history. The New York Review of Books describes her writing as "vivid… boisterous…playful…a delicious reminder that ‘American’ applies to plenty of territory beyond the borders of the United States."

    11. Sandra Cisneros
    Sandra Cisneros is not a native of San Antonio, but she has lived here for the past several years, after having spent the earlier part of her life in
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    The usually dry bed of Woman Hollering Creek after a rain storm Sandra Cisneros is not a native of San Antonio, but she has lived here for the past several years, after having spent the earlier part of her life in Chicago (her childhood home) and other places in the Midwest and West, punctuated by periodic visits to Mexico. While Sandra Cisneros is not the only gifted creative writer living in San Antonio at the present, she has received the most attention, especially from publishers of literary texts. For example, at least four of her books have been published by major East Coast firms: The House on Mango Street (1983) by Vintage/Random House; Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991) by Random House; a collection of poetry called Loose Woman (1994) by Knopf; and the novel Caramelo (2002), also by Knopf. In addition, the anthologies of American literature put together for college-level courses are more likely to include one or more selections from her work than from any other Latina writer.
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    With her fiction and poetry Sandra Cisneros creates poignant stories and brings an original twist to universal themes, notably love. Yet, as Jim Sagel in Publishers Weekly pointed out, "Cisneros knows her characters live in an America very different...

    13. VG: Artist Biography: Cisneros, Sandra
    sandra cisneros did not have a normal childhood. As a person growing up in a society where the class norm was superimposed on a television screen,
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        My mother says when I grow older my dusty hair will settle and my blouse will learn to stay clean, but I have decided not to grow up tame like the others who lay their necks on the threshold waiting for the ball and chain. In the movies there is always one with red red lips who is beautiful and cruel. She is the one who drives men crazy and laughs them all the way. Her power is her own. She will not give it away.
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        Sandra Cisneros did not have a "normal" childhood. "As a person growing up in a society where the class norm was superimposed on a television screen, I couldn't understand why our home wasn't all green lawns and white wood like the ones in `Leave It To Beaver' and 'Father Knows Best'" (Ghosts 72). She wanted desperately to believe that her poverty was just a temporary situation, so she looked toward stories to escape. There was a book called The Little House that she checked out of the library over and over again. The house in the story was her dream house because it was one house for one family, and it was permanent and stable. Cisneros' writing has been shaped by her experiences. Because of her unique background, Cisneros is very different from traditional American writers. She has something to say that they don't know about. She also has her own way of saying it. Her first book, The House on Mango Street, is an elegant literary piece, somewhere between fiction and poetry. She doesn't just make up characters, but writes about real people that she has encountered in her lifetime. Cisneros' work explores issues that are important to her: feminism, love, oppression, and religion. In "Ghosts and Voices: Writing From Obsession," she says, "If I were asked what it is I write about, I would have to say I write about those ghosts inside that haunt me, that will not let me sleep, of that which even memory does not like to mention."(73).

    14. Gale - Free Resources - Hispanic Heritage - Biographies - Sandra Cisneros
    In her poetry and stories, Mexican American author sandra cisneros writes about Mexican and Mexican American women who find strength to rise above the poor
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    15. Sandra Cisneros
    www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/ poets/a_f/cisneros/cisneros.htm sandra cisnerossandra cisneros was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1954. She and her six brothers grew up in Mexico and Chicago. cisneros earned a B.A. in English from
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    16. Sandra Cisneros : Teacher Resource File
    sandra cisneros page with biography, lesson plans, book reviews, bibliography and ERIC resources.
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    Welcome to the Internet School Library Media Center Sandra Cisneros page. You will find biography, bibliography, lesson plans, book reviews and ERIC resources on this page. For other authors please visit Authors and Illustrators in Children's and Young Adults' Literature . The ISLMC is a preview site for librarians, teachers, parents and students. You can search this site, use an index or site map . Page revised 01/28/00.
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    A collection of stories, whose characters give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border. The women in these stories offer tales of pure discovery, filled with moments of infinite and intimate wisdom.
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    18. Identity Theory | Interviews | Sandra Cisneros
    Writer, poet, performance artist sandra cisneros was born in Chicago. She is the only girl in a family of seven of a Mexican father and MexicanAmerican
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    Author of Caramelo talks with Robert Birnbaum Posted: December 4, 2002 All photos by Red Diaz / Duende Publishing Print this interview. Writer, poet, performance artist Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago. She is the only girl in a family of seven of a Mexican father and Mexican-American mother. She received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has worked as a teacher to high-school dropouts, a poet-in-the-schools, a college recruiter and an arts administrator. She has received, among other awards and fellowships, the Lannan Literary Award, The American Book Award and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship. Sandra Cisneros has published Bad Boys, My Wicked Wicked Ways, Loose Woman, House on Mango Street, Hair/Pelitos

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    Born December 20, 1954 in Chicago, sandra cisneros is an American novelist, shortstory writer, essayist, and poet. cisneros is one of the first
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    Sandra Cisneros Born December 20, 1954 in Chicago, Sandra Cisneros is an American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and poet. Cisneros is one of the first Hispanic-American writers who has achieved commercial success. She is lauded by literary scholars and critics for works which help bring the perspective of Chicana (Mexican-American) women into the mainstream of literary feminism. Cisneros received her B.A. from Loyola University in 1976 and her M.F.A from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1978. This workshop marks an important turning point in her career as a writer. Cisneros had periodically written poems and stories while growing up, but it was the frustrations she encountered at the Writer's Workshop that inspired Cisneros' realization that her experiences as a Latina woman were unique and outside the realm of dominant American culture. Thus, Cisneros decided to write about conflicts directly related to her upbringing, including divided cultural loyalties, feelings of alienation, and degradation associated with poverty. These specific cultural and social concerns, coupled with Cisneros' feelings of alienation as a Latina writer, came to life five years later in The House on Mango Street In addition to writing, Cisneros has taught at the Latino Youth Alternative High School in Chicago and has been a college recruiter and counselor for minority students at Loyala University of Chicago. She served as literature director for the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio, Texas, and was an artist in residence at the Foundation Michael Karolyi in Vence, France. She has been a guest professor at

    20. Sandra Cisneros Biography
    Chicana feminist, poet, and novelist, sandra cisneros, has been described most recently as frankly erotic (New York Daily News) and as a writer whose
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    Sandra Cisneros Biography
    Find all books written by Sandra Cisneros on Amazon.com Nationality: American. Born: Chicago, Illinois, 1954. Education: Loyola University, B.A. 1976; University of Iowa, M.F.A. 1978. Career: Teacher, Latino Youth Alternative High School, Chicago, Illinois, 1978-80; college recruiter and counselor for minority students, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, 1981-82; artist-in-residence, Foundation Michael Karolyi, Vence, France, 1983; literature director, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, Texas, 1984-85; guest professor, California State University, Chico, 1987-88, University of California, Berkeley, 1988, University of California, Irvine, 1990, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1990, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1991. Awards: National Endowment for the Arts fellow, 1982, 1988; American Book Award (Before Columbus Foundation), 1985; Paisano Dobie fellowship, 1986; first and second proize, Segundo Concurso Nacional del Cuento Chicano (University of Arizona); Lannan Foundation Literary Award, 1991; H.D.L., State University of New York at Purchase, 1993; MacArthur fellow, 1995. Agent: Susan Bergholz Literary Services, 17 West 10th Street, Suite 5, New York, New York 10011, U.S.A.

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