Sandra Cisneros

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sandra Cisneros
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Dec 20, 1954(1954-12-20)
Age	70
Birthplace	Chicago
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Sandra Cisneros Biography

Sandra Cisneros is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on December 20, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Author who’s works of Chicana literary works include an award-winning, coming of age book, The House on Mango Street (1984) as well as the collection of short stories Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991). She was awarded each of the Clay McDaniel Award as well as the American Book Award.

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Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954) is an American writer. She is best known for her first novel The House on Mango Street (1983) and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991). Her work experiments with literary forms and investigates emerging subject positions, which Cisneros herself attributes to growing up in a context of cultural hybridity and economic inequality that endowed her with unique stories to tell. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, was awarded one of 25 new Ford Foundation Art of Change fellowships in 2017, and is regarded as a key figure in Chicana literature.

Her family made a down payment on their own home in Humboldt Park, a predominantly Puerto Rican neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side when she was eleven years old. This neighborhood and its characters would later become the inspiration for Cisneros’s novel The House on Mango Street. For high school, Cisneros attended Josephinum Academy, a small Catholic all-girls school. Here she found an ally in a high-school teacher who helped her to write poems about the Vietnam War. Although Cisneros had written her first poem around the age of ten, with her teacher’s encouragement she became known for her writing throughout her high-school years. In high school she wrote poetry and was the literary magazine editor, but, according to herself, she did not really start writing until her first creative writing class in college in 1974. After that it took a while to find her own voice. She explains, “I rejected what was at hand and emulated the voices of the poets I admired in books: big male voices like James Wright and Richard Hugo and Theodore Roethke, all wrong for me.”

The girl was raised in Chicago to an ethnically Mexican-American family. She was the sole girl who survived from a family of seven children. The daughter is Alfredo as well as Elvira Cisneros of Mora.

Sandra Cisneros Net Worth

Sandra Cisneros is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sandra Cisneros 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Her first poem was written in the age of ten , and was inspired by her teacher at high school to pursue a career as a writer. Her debut novel, Bad Boys, in 1980.

She was a prominent character in Chicana literature. She founded as well her foundation, the Macondo Foundation and the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation.

Cisneros was born in Chicago, Illinois on December 20, 1954, the third of seven children. The only surviving daughter, she considered herself the “odd number in a set of men”. Cisneros’s great-grandfather had played the piano for the Mexican president and was from a wealthy background, but he gambled away his family’s fortune. Her paternal grandfather Enrique was a veteran of the Mexican Revolution, and he used what money he had saved to give her father, Alfredo Cisneros de Moral, the opportunity to go to college. However, after failing classes due to what Cisneros called his “lack of interest” in studying, Alfredo ran away to the United States to escape his father’s anger. While roaming the southern United States with his brother, Alfredo visited Chicago where he met Elvira Cordero Anguiano. After getting married, the pair settled in one of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods. Cisneros’s biographer Robin Ganz writes that she acknowledges her mother’s family name came from a very humble background, tracing its roots back to Guanajuato, Mexico, while her father’s was much more “admirable”.

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When Cisneros addresses the subject of female sexuality, she often portrays negative scenarios in which men exert control over women through control over their sexuality, and explores the gap she perceives between the real sexual experiences of women and their idealized representation in popular culture. However, Cisneros also describes female sexuality in extremely positive terms, especially in her poetry. This is true, for example, of her 1987 volume of poetry My Wicked, Wicked Ways. According to Madsen, Cisneros refers to herself as “wicked” for having “reappropriated, taken control of, her own sexuality and the articulation of it – a power forbidden to women under patriarchy”. Through these poems she aims to represent “the reality of female sexuality” so that women readers will recognize the “divisive effects” of the stereotypes that they are expected to conform to, and “discover the potential for joy in their bodies that is denied them”.

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Sandra Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Sandra Cisneros celebrates birthday on December 20 of every year.

Literary critic Claudia Sadowski-Smith has called Cisneros “perhaps the most famous Chicana writer”, and Cisneros has been acknowledged as a pioneer in her literary field as the first female Mexican-American writer to have her work published by a mainstream publisher. In 1989, The House on Mango Street, which was originally published by the small Hispanic publishing company Arte Público Press, was reissued in a second edition by Vintage Press; and in 1991 Woman Hollering Creek was published by Random House. As Ganz observes, previously only male Chicano authors had successfully made the crossover from smaller publishers. That Cisneros had garnered enough attention to be taken on by Vintage Press said a lot about the possibility for Chicano literature to become more widely recognized. Cisneros spoke of her success and what it meant for Chicana literature in an interview on National Public Radio on 19 September 1991:

Top Facts about Sandra Cisneros

1. Sandra Cisneros is a Mexican-American writer born in 1954.
2. Her most famous work is “The House on Mango Street.”
3. She has won numerous awards, including the MacArthur Fellowship.
4. Cisneros is known for her exploration of Chicana identity and culture.
5. She has published several books of poetry and fiction.
6. Cisneros was the first Hispanic woman to receive a major publishing contract.
7. Her work has been translated into over 20 languages.
8. Cisneros founded the Macondo Writers Workshop to support emerging writers of color.
9. She currently resides in San Antonio, Texas.
10. In addition to writing, Cisneros is also an activist and community organizer.

What is Sandra Cisneros best known for?

Sandra Cisneros, (born December 20, 1954, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), American short-story writer and poet best known for her groundbreaking evocation of Mexican American life in Chicago.

How did Sandra Cisneros change the world?

In addition to her writing, Cisneros has fostered the careers of many aspiring and emerging writers through the two non-profit organizations she founded: the Macondo Foundation and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation, a grant- giving institution serving Texas writers.

Why did Sandra Cisneros write The House on Mango Street?

I wrote it so that it would be approachable for all people, whether they were educated or not, and whether they were children or adults. My idea was to write it in a way that it would not make anyone feel intimidated, but welcome.

What are 4 interesting facts you learned about Sandra Cisneros?

• She is the only girl of seven siblings. Cisneros grew up with six brothers. …
• She is an outspoken feminist. …
• She once worked as a teacher. …
• She started her own writing workshop for aspiring writers. …
• She practices Buddhism.

Why is The House on Mango Street important?

Esperanza didn’t always live on Mango Street, but that is where her story takes place. And the house on Mango Street is the first house her family has owned. “ House is a symbolic image in the book that represents ideas like independence, pride, a stable life and dreams of a family.