Sandra Cisneros
The writer Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954, the third child and only daughter in a family of seven children (Cisneros). Cisneros grew up to study at the Loyola University of Chicago and the University of Iowa, working as a teacher, arts administrator, high-school drop-out counselor, and college recruiter (Cisneros). However, Cisneros is most famous for her talent as a writer, having brought into existence such masterpieces as The House on Mango Street and Caramelo, the former a novel possessing the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award, one that is required reading in schools middle school and up across the country, having sold over two million copies without stopping (Cisneros). The latter book, Caramelo, has received the Premio Napoli Award and has also been nominated for the Orange Prize in England (Cisneros). Both of these pieces of writing have been chosen for numerous One-City/One-Read projects by many communities such as Miami, El Paso, Milwaukee, Fort Worth, and Los Angeles (Cisneros). Cisneros has been given many awards such as the MacArthur Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and a Texas Medal of the Arts (Cisneros). Cisneros has been writing for more than forty-five years, living off of her writing for more than twenty, and publishing for over forty (Cisneros). Cisneros' books have been translated into over a dozen languages, such as Spanish, Galician, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Norwegian, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, and, most recently, into Greek, Iranian, Thai, and Serbo-Croatian (Cisneros). Cisneros' book, The House on Mango Street, shows some similar elements in its setting to Cisneros' life at the same age. Both she and her character Esperanza Cordero grow up in a large family living in the Latino section of Chicago (Cisneros). In addition, Cisneros' mother, Elvira possesses the middle name Cordero, the last name of The House on Mango Street's main character(Cisneros). With this information, it's not too unlikely that The House on Mango Street is at least partially constructed from Cisneros' adolescent memories.
Works Cited
Cisneros, Sandra. "SANDRA CISNEROS." Sandra Cisneros: About Sandra Cisneros. N.p., 13 Nov. 2013. Web. 23 Apr. 2015.
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. New York: Random House, 1991. Print
Works Cited
Cisneros, Sandra. "SANDRA CISNEROS." Sandra Cisneros: About Sandra Cisneros. N.p., 13 Nov. 2013. Web. 23 Apr. 2015.
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. New York: Random House, 1991. Print