Sandra Cisneros

@Hispanic Women, Birthday and Family ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Sandra Cisneros is an American writer known for audaciously penning the realities and expectations from females in US and Mexico Illinois Hispanic Authors American Writers Novelists Essayists Sagittarius Celebrities Sandra Cisneros is an American writer best known for her first novel 'The House on Mango Street' in which a young Latina woman comes of age in Chicago. She is acknowledged as a pioneer in her literary field, as she is the first female Mexican-American writer to have her work published by a mainstream publisher. Her books have been translated into over a dozen languages. During graduation, she realised that she had no nice memory of growing up to write about, like her peers. All she could remember was constantly shifting between Mexico and US, growing up with six brothers and a misogynist father, and feeling alone. But, rather than being afraid, she decided to pen these experiences and bared her tale of limited opportunities and a restricted lifestyle. When it came to novel writing, she worked on the formation of the Chicana identity, exploring the challenges of being caught between Mexican and Anglo-American cultures, facing the misogynist attitude present in both these cultures, and poverty. While writing Cisneros alternates between first person, third person, and stream-of-consciousness narrative modes, and ranges from brief impressionistic vignettes to longer event-driven stories, and from highly poetic language to brutally frank language. Generally critiquing the social norms, she was amazed by the recognition she received beyond the Chicano and Latino communities.

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Birthday: December 20, 1954 Nationality: American Famous: Hispanic Women, Hispanic Authors, Writers, Novelists, Essayists City/State: Illinois Universities: Josephinum Academy Loyola University Chicago University of Iowa Birth Place: Chicago Gender: Female Information Detail Birthday December 20, 1954 Nationality American Famous Hispanic Women, Hispanic Authors, Writers, Novelists, Essayists City/State Illinois Universities Josephinum Academy Loyola University Chicago University of Iowa Birth Place Chicago Gender Female Father Alfredo Cisneros de Moral Mother Elvira Cordero Anguiano Sun Sign Sagittarius Born in Chicago Famous as Writer

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Sandra has never believed in the institution of marriage and lives alone happily, as it helps her in writing, without any hindrance. She herself said, "My writing is my child and I don't want anything to come between us." Unsplash Personal Life

She founded the 'Macondo Foundation' in 1998 in her kitchen and it was officially incorporated in 2006. The foundation works with writers who write about community-building and non-violent social change. Unsplash Personal Life

She founded the 'Alfredo del Moral Foundation' in 2000 to commemorate the memory of his father. The foundation awards writers that were born in Texas, write about Texas or have lived there since 2007. Unsplash Personal Life

Sandra Cisneros was born in Illinois, Chicago on December 20, 1954, to a Mexican father and a Chicana mother. She had six brothers. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Her father was an upholsterer and hence the family kept shifting between Chicago and Mexico City. Due to this Sandra became shy and reserved and could never commit to a lasting friendship or a relationship. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Her mother, Elvira was a very strong female influence on her. Elvira was a voracious reader and was more socially enlightened and conscious than her husband. She ensured that her daughter realizes and achieves her potential. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Sandra Cisneros received her high school education from Josephinum Academy, a small Catholic all-girls school. She wrote poetry and was the literary magazine's editor. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

In 1976, she graduated from Loyola University with BA in English and received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa, in 1978. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

After graduating she taught former high-school dropouts at the Latino Youth High School in Chicago, in 1978. This experience helped her in understanding the problems of the young Latino Americans. Unsplash Career

In her 1984 hit-novel 'The House on Mango Street' she very boldly addresses subjects such as gender inequality and the marginalisation of cultural minorities. Admiring her courage and writing skill, many top universities offered her the position of 'Writer-in-Residence'. Unsplash Career

She draws inspiration from her personal experiences and by observing the people of her community and those around her. She makes a record of conversations from where ever she goes and later incorporates them in her story. Unsplash Career

Proud of her ethnicity, she regularly uses Spanish words/phrases in place of English ones. But her easy and descriptive sentence formation helps the non-Spanish speakers in comprehending the sentence. Unsplash Career

In 1991, she published a collection of 22 short stories called the 'Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories'. Unsplash Career

Sandra's first novel, 'The House On Mango Street' which came out in 1984, has sold more than 2 million copies. Unsplash Major Works

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Birthday	December 20, 1954
Nationality	American
Famous	Hispanic Women, Hispanic Authors, Writers, Novelists, Essayists
City/State	Illinois
Universities	Josephinum Academy Loyola University Chicago University of Iowa
Birth Place	Chicago
Gender	Female
Father	Alfredo Cisneros de Moral
Mother	Elvira Cordero Anguiano
Sun Sign	Sagittarius
Born in	Chicago
Famous as	Writer

Sandra Cisneros

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Dec 20, 1954

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