When was sandra cisneros born

Born on December 20, , Cisnero grew up in Chicago, Illinois. Due to constant travel they had to keep switching school and find new place to live every time. The feeling of isolation aggravated as her father looked at his children as six sons and a daughter. In fact, the growing loneliness played a key role in developing her interest in writing.

Her mother was the only one around her with an avid reading habit and social awareness and she made sure that her daughter would become an independent woman unlike herself. She created an impressionistic portrait of life on the border between the United States and Mexico through a series of vignettes in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories Cisneros has received numerous awards for her work, including the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in and the Texas Medal of the Arts Award in At the ceremony, President Obama said Cisneros was being honored "for enriching the American narrative.

Through her novels, short stories, and poetry, she explores issues of race, class, and gender through the lives of ordinary people straddling multiple cultures.

As an educator, she has deepened our understanding of American identity. We strive for accuracy and fairness. Josephinum in Chicago, that Cisneros first found an outlet and discovered acceptance for her creativity.

Encouraged by a teacher, Cisneros wrote poetry and became willing to share her work with her young peers. She worked on a high school literary magazine, eventually becoming editor. In her free time she wrote and submitted poems to literary journals with some success.

She read her poems to club and coffee shop audiences, gradually earning a local reputation. In , Cisneros received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.

Published in , the book gained international acclaim, winning Cisneros the American Book Award. Depicting the lives of Chicana women in the San Antonio area, the book garnered both critical and popular acclaim and earned the author the financial stability she would need to be a full-time writer. Her most recent book is Have You Seen Marie? National Women's History Museum, Date accessed. Chicago - Alexander, Kerri Lee.

Sandra Cisneros Works Cited. Cisneros, Sandra. Ganz, Robin. Library of Congress Biographies. Mathias, Kelly, and Lauren Curtright. University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy. Texas Medal of Arts. Photograph: Public Domain.